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Originally Posted by MattCW
Playing a bit of devil's advocate in response to some posts saying "nothing should be built next to a river." A standard structure fire isn't likely to require fire suppressants beyond water. But you can't use water on an alcohol fire since alcohol floats on water. Now that said, I do think this is a bit much unless it can be shown that Jim Bean was already in violation of something prior to the fire.
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Alcohol floats on water...?
Someone flunked chem 101.
Alcohol is extremely hydrophilic, and disperses very quickly in water chemically this is termed miscible.