G.O.A.T Fire

Greatest of all time Fire.

No, not the Great Fire of London, not the Rome fire when Nero fiddled. Not one of the many fires in feudal Japan when all the paper houses were engulfed… This one greater than the fire that set Australia on fire.

This fire is even greater than the underground one that’s been going on for decades.

Introducing, The Great Butter Fire of 1991. What makes this one greatest, well it’s better because everything’s better with butter. (Plus I think it tied in well with the scales for sale today).

Every country has had its own great butter fires, there’s stories of trucks carrying butter spontaneously combusting making the rest of the truck’s contents toast… But the largest butter fire ever was in Wisconsin.

So back in May, 1991 an Oscar Mayer shrink wrap machine caught on fire which caused a chain reaction leading up the flames reaching the roof of the building before the sprinkler system could even kick in. 4 minutes from first flame until the fire reached the roof.

(Not that that would have helped much, firefighters quickly discovered their water based solutions to putting out fire didn’t really help with oily butter.)

10 million pounds (where’s Dr. evil) of butter went up in flames and the fire burned for over a week. Apparently a nauseating smell lingered over Madison for over a week, and this time it wasn’t the Badgers.

3000 people had to be evacuated from their homes, over 100 firefighters were called in. $100million in damage ended up being done…

… And no one had butter to make the cheese sauces for their pasta drop pasta for a few weeks.

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