Fire crews called to blaze at Shropshire chicken farm building housing 240,000 birds

Multiple fire crews were called to a fire at a major Shropshire chicken farm.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service sent four crews to Oakland Farm Eggs at Edstaston near Wem.

The service was alerted to the incident at around 5.45am on Sunday (August 9).

The incident involved a fire in a building housing chickens; a specialist animal fire rescue team was sent to the scene to help with efforts to get around 240,000 chickens to safety.

An update from the fire service said that 10 per cent of the building was involved in fire, with the crews wearing breathing equipment while using two hose reel jets to extinguish the blaze.

As of 9.30am crews were still on the site damping down.