The Jim Beam warehouse fire continued to burn Thursday. ; One of the warehouses in Kentucky's Woodford County was still burning after more than two days. 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. A fire that leveled two Jim Beam bourbon warehouses on Tuesday hasn't been put out with water over fears that water runoff could poison wildlife in nearby rivers. The fire that started around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday is still burning at the Jim Beam warehouse in Woodford County, according to authorities. Distilling the Jim Beam fire: What we know about the cause, river impact and more What once was a Jim Beam warehouse in Woodford County is now a fiery pile of rubble . Lightning might have been a factor, but fire investigators haven't been able to start looking A fire has ripped through a massive Jim Beam warehouse in the United States, destroying about 45,000 barrels of ageing bourbon. A Jim Beam warehouse in Kentucky caught fire, igniting around 45,000 barrels of spirits in a blaze that burned through the night. A massive fire tore through a Kentucky warehouse, destroying 45,000 barrels of Jim Beam bourbon.
Chandler says one warehouse initially caught fire with flames spreading to the second structure.
The fire destroyed 45,000 barrels of bourbon, about 1% of Beam's bourbon inventory. 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. … A fire at a Jim Beam warehouse in Versailles, Kentucky, was in its third day of burning on Thursday, as Kentucky officials began assessing the environmental impact the … FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of aging bourbon in Kentucky, and state officials worried that runoff whiskey seeping into nearby waterways would kill fish. A fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of aging bourbon in Kentucky, and state officials worried that runoff whiskey seeping into nearby waterways would kill fish. Fire turned a Jim Beam warehouse into a burning pile of rubble Wednesday as thousands of gallons of bourbon runoff spilled into a nearby creek and the Kentucky River. The Woodford County Fire Department is waiting to extinguish the Jim Beam warehouse fire "because of the environmental consideration." Beam Suntory operates 126 such warehouses in Kentucky, holding approximately 3.3m barrels for its American whiskey brands such as Maker’s Mark and Knob Creek in addition to Jim Beam.
That's roughly 6 million bottles of Beam.) Distilling the Jim Beam fire: What we know about the cause, river impact and more What once was a Jim Beam warehouse in Woodford County is now a fiery pile of rubble . (Don't measure drinks by the barrel? Firefighters from four counties responded to … A Jim Beam warehouse in Versailles, Kentucky filled with about 45,000 barrels of bourbon has caught fire, multiple outlets report. Crews were able to put out the flames in the second warehouse. Its proximity to Glenns Creek, a tributary of the Kentucky River, means there's a risk to putting it out.
A Jim Beam warehouse, filled with about 40,000 bourbon barrels, was burning Wednesday morning after a fire started around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at the facility in Woodford County. Jim Beam's massive warehouse fire: Latest in a series of Kentucky bourbon distillery accidents The equivalent of roughly 6 million bottles of bourbon were lost in a fire …