{"id":43663,"date":"2019-07-03T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43663"},"modified":"2019-07-03T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T17:01:22","slug":"massive-fire-engulfs-jim-beam-facility-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/massive-fire-engulfs-jim-beam-facility-in-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire engulfs Jim Beam facility in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#e6e6e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.ksdk.com\/embeds\/video\/63-8ef970e2-3f76-4d67-abe0-07f82df68c1e\/iframe\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Two barrel houses at a Jim Beam aging facility in Woodford\nCounty went up in flames late Tuesday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lex18.com\/massive-fire-engulfs-jim-beam-facility-in-woodford-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lexington NBC affiliate LEX 18 reports.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire prompted a massive response from area emergency and\nfire crews that continues into this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8+ hours later, the fire continues to burn at this Jim Beam property in Woodford County. Emergency Management officials tell me they expect it to last for several more hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LEX18News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LEX18News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RHqJrQ36xd\">pic.twitter.com\/RHqJrQ36xd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Valverde (@AlexValverdeTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexValverdeTV\/status\/1146397129809813504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials told LEX 18 the call reporting the blaze along\nMcCracken Pike near Versailles came at about 11:30 p.m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities told LEX 18 that one of the rickhouses, an area\nwhere barrels of bourbon are stored as they age, was what initially caught\nfire. That fire eventually spread to another nearby structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crews at one point had the fire in the first barrel house\nput out, but it reignited, showing the difficulty of fighting a blaze fueled by\nboth wood and alcohol. LEX 18 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two barrel houses at a Jim Beam aging facility in Woodford County went up in flames late Tuesday,&nbsp;Lexington NBC affiliate LEX 18 reports.&nbsp; The fire prompted a massive response from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}