On this day in 1996, one of the country’s worst-ever distillery fires burns 2% of the world’s whiskey and threatens the future of the bourbon industry.
On this day in 1996, one of the country’s worst-ever distillery fires began. At the Heaven Hill warehouses in Bardstown, Kentucky, a fire started in the afternoon on Nov. 7 that eventually destroyed nearly 100,000 barrels of bourbon. A storm was brewing in the afternoon, with winds clocking in at 70 mph. The fire began in one of the dozens of wooden warehouses that stored thousands of barrels of aging bourbon. Once it had started, the fire became almost impossible to stop.
Witnesses compared it to a war zone, with skeletons of cars abandoned on the road, mailboxes from nearby homes melted by the heat, and still-flowing creeks of bourbon. Debris from the fire was found all around town, up to four miles away from the scene. Miraculously, no one was hurt or killed. Investigators were unable to confirm the cause of the fire, given the lengths of devastation, but some believe it was a lightning strike or faulty electrical wiring that caused the blaze.
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