Multiple crews are on the scene of a major fire at a bourbon warehouse facility.
Woodford County Emergency Management Director Drew Chandler tells WKYT two barrel warehouses at a Jim Beam aging facility caught fire around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The facility is on McCracken Pike, near the Franklin County line.
Chandler says one warehouse initially caught fire with flames spreading to the second structure.
Crews were able to put out the flames in the second warehouse. Flames were still visible in the first warehouse five hours after the fire started.
Chandler says approximately 45,000 barrels of bourbon were in the warehouse that was still burning. He speculated crews could be on scene until late Wednesday night.
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Sprinklers save lives and other important things.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is a good reason to lower flags to half-staff this week.
ReplyDeleteI like Jim Beam more than those red-wax sealed varieties.
"...and other important things."
ReplyDeleteIf it had been Jack Daniels it would have been important. Jim Beam? Not so much.
Oh, the alcolamity!
ReplyDeleteI recall a Jim Beam warehouse fire a few years ago (maybe longer). I'm getting old. But I do remember a warehouse fire. And Jim Beam.
ReplyDeletesniff..sniff...sobbing. No matter the class of bourbon or where its located on a shelf (low or top)....always sad when many batches/barrels of bourbon are lost!
ReplyDeleteThe humanity!
I just grabbed my swim trunks and on the way to the Ky. river. I'll be beaming when I return to the shore.
ReplyDeleteI remember a old country song.
ReplyDeleteIf the river was whiskey,
And I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom,
And never come up.
Any lost bourbon like this is a real absolute Shame !
ReplyDeleteLibs did it.
DeleteRE CLAIM THE WOOS......
ReplyDeleteDrunk .. lol WOOD
DeleteGood!! Burn 'em all down.
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