The fire started in cane fields near the Jamaican distillery and quickly spread, touching part of the fermentation room and destroying about 65,000 liters of fresh rum. The full extent of damage hasn’t been determined.
No one was injured in the first, which was contained this morning except for the bagasse dump at the Sugar Factory.
Long Pond Distillery doesn’t store or age rum on premise, so the aged rum stock wasn’t affected.