JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — An investigation is underway after a fire broke out at Baffoni’s Poultry Farm in Johnston Wednesday morning.
Crews were called to the farm on Greenville Avenue around 5 a.m.
There were roughly 8,000 chickens in the building in three of the four coops. Of those, 3,000 in the first-floor coop died, and the grain room was unaffected.
“It could’ve been a lot worse. The coop has two stories, and the second floor was empty which is fortunate. It could’ve been a lot more,” Adam Baffoni said. “The other half of the coop had about 5,000 chickens in it which survived and should be just fine.”