Another Major Fire Claims 11,000 Chickens' Lives

Erik Markus' Vegan.com blog has written about about yet another disaster at a large-scale chicken coop in Arkansas.  This one, a fire, claimed 11,000 lives.  Questions that come to my mind when these disasters happen:  What do they do with the dead birds?  Does insurance cover the losses?  How much carbon is released into the atmosphere when one of these disasters happen?  Does anyone care?