The chicks were five weeks old.
Around 20,000 baby chickens were killed in a massive central Pennsylvania barn fire early Tuesday, WHP-TV reported.
The chicks were five weeks old, officials said.
The fire broke out at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday at a chicken house in North Cornwall Township in Lebanon County.
Firefighters were forced to evacuate when the barn collapsed. No injuries were reported.
Officials estimated damage to be $500,000 including the chickens' value.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
"It's a lot of open area," Neversink Fire Chief Michael Nelson told WHP-TV. "You do have your dust, your feeds, you have your straw you put down and stuff. That's why it went as quick as it did."
Around 40,000 baby chicks had died in another North Cornwall chicken house fire in March last year.
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