{"id":382076,"date":"2025-11-16T02:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382076\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T02:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:53:13","slug":"more-than-50-chickens-perish-in-suburban-harvard-barn-fire-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382076\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 50 chickens perish in suburban Harvard barn fire \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 50 to 60 chickens died when a barn in a northwest suburb of Chicago caught fire Saturday morning, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, the Harvard Fire Protection District responded to a fire on the 4700 block of Lindwall Road and found a barn &#8220;fully engulfed and already collapsing&#8221; and two vehicles on fire, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>All 50 to 60 chickens that we inside the barn at the time of the fire died, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The fire was also spreading to the house when authorities arrived, prompting the incident to be upgraded and additional personnel and water resources to be requested, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The family exited prior to fire fighters arriving and were not injured. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harvard-Lindwall-Fire-111525-0005.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Harvard Fire Protection District <\/p>\n<p>Crews contained the fire within 25 minutes; however, personnel stayed on scene for an additional 2 hours to conduct overhaul and extinguish hot spots. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the cause of the fire remains under investigation, though it is not believed to be suspicious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between 50 to 60 chickens died when a barn in a northwest suburb of Chicago caught fire Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":382077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,12291,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-382076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-harvard","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115557120107121717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}