NFPA Journal - March/April 2018 - 45

INDUSTRIAL AND STORAGE OCCUPANCIES

As craft distilleries proliferate around
the country, concerns grow over the scarcity of safety
guidance offered for distillers and AHJs
BY ANGELO VERZONI

I

N 2003, A LIGHTNING STRIKE AT A JIM BEAM
warehouse in Bardstown, Kentucky, set the wood-frame
structure ablaze and sent 800,000 gallons of flaming
bourbon into a nearby retention pond. Fueled by the
storm's whipping winds, flames from the burning spirit shot
skyward and formed a massive fire whirl over the pond that
was captured on video and later widely shared online, where
sensationalized headlines dubbed it a "firenado." No one was
hurt in the incident, although the Weather Channel reported
the casualties of "many fish."
Similar scenarios have played out at other distilleries in Kentucky, which is home to many of the country's largest whiskey
makers. In 1996, a fire broke out at Heaven Hill Distillery, also
located in Bardstown, and burning whiskey created what one
employee described to The Kentucky Standard as "a river of
fire." In 2000, a fire at a Wild Turkey distillery in Lawrenceburg destroyed nearly 1 million gallons of bourbon.

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