Firefighters in Kyiv Oblast have extinguished a large fire at the YasenSvit poultry factory in the city of Vasylkiv, some 30 kilometers southwest of Kyiv.
As many as 50 firefighters and 13 vehicles took part in combating the blaze, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Firefighters received the emergency call at 11:37 a.m. and immediately dispatched 10 fire brigades to the scene of the blaze. The fire covered an area of 15,000 square meters. However, by 1:50 p.m. the firefighters had localized the flames. By 2:25 p.m. they had successfully extinguished the fire.
The emergency services reported no casualties during the incident.
The Kyiv-based YasenSvit company runs an egg-processing plant in Vasylkiv. The company is, in turn, owned by the Ovostar Union group, one of Ukraine’s leading agro-industrial firms and one of Europe’s five largest producers of eggs.
“Based on the Emergency Service’s photos, we identified that it was a hen house that caught fire (either for laying hens, or for young hens),” Concorde Capital, a Ukrainian investment company, wrote in its newsletter on June 4.
“We estimate (the) capacity of the damaged house is 0.2 million hens, which is 2.5% of Ovostar’s total company’s (sic) flock.”
