Thirty Chickens Die in Swingset Inferno

https://www.kitsapdailynews.com/news/30-chickens-die-in-hansville-fire/

Tragic news from the pacific northwest as swingset attached to poultry shack goes up in blazes costing the lives of thirty innocent fowls. The birds, cocks and hens, were basking in the strawbed warmth of a rural coop when a spiders nest of extension cords overloading a bargain powerstrip arced out in a dazzling flash of blinding white light starting a roaring conflagration consuming shack, strawbedding and birds in a a matter of pffft seconds.

The slapdash shack, scrawny bantams, fouled straw excelsior and appurtnances were uninsured and could a value be attributed would be a total loss. The terrible sqwauks were hear for miles.