Fire eats up 2 buildings at Kiltepan Peak

By Gina Dizon

SAGADA, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE- A  disastrous fire believed to be arson razed two buildings estimated at P5 million here at the scenic  Kiltepan  Peak on the property of businessman Wilson Capuyan night of November 8, 2018.  One is a restaurant which had not been operational for a year and the other is a residential cottage. No one is staying in both buildings  except for a caretaker who goes to clean from time to time. 

          By  9:10 pm on the night of November 8,  four consecutive  heavy blasts of what seemed to be explosives were heard in town followed by  continuous pealing of bells.

          Continued and fast pealing of bells in town had always been associated to signal a disastrous fire is on-going leading a number of residents to go to the site of the fire including officials from the local government unit, and the Sagada-based elements from the Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Fire.

            The fire heavily ate up the two structures with almost all parts razed down leaving the posts and the concrete walls of the restaurant building unfired with the intervention of the  BOF. 

            Eleven unused explosives were found in the vicinity of one of the razed buildings, and a heavy smell of gasoline at another unburned cottage.

            As of presstime, investigation is on- going by the Post Blast unit of the Bureau of Fire.