Saboteurs burn Bonuan dumpsite anew
OBSTRUCTIONISM IS BACK
AS the dumpsite in Bonuan is near closure by Mayor Belen Fernandez, another suspicious fire broke out in the area at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday sending columns of black smoke up in the sky seen in most parts of the city.
Fire Chief Inspector Michael Escano, fire marshal of Dagupan City, expressed with certainty that the new fire at the dumpsite was caused by human hands, not the forces of nature, as he began investigating where it started.
The fire broke out while the City Waste Management Division under Bernard Cabison was transporting of the remaining mound of wastes to the sanitary landfill in Urdaneta.
It was the fourth fire that occurred at the dumpsite since Mayor Fernandez returned to power and was happening every time she attempted to finally close the biggest source of environmental pollution in the city.
Fernandez, who was attending a forum put up by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology in Diliman, Quezon City, along with other officials of Dagupan, believed, too, that the latest fire at the dumpsite was done by saboteurs.
“It seems that some people in the city do not want us to succeed in finally closing the more than 60 years old dumpsite for obvious reasons, foremost of which is political,” Fernandez said.
The fourth fire at the dumpsite was put under control by combined fire fighters from the Bureau of Fire Protection in Dagupan City, Panda Volunteer Fire Fighting Brigade, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and USATV fire teams.
She recalled that a suspicious fire also broke out when members of the international media were in Dagupan for the signing of the agreement for the Waste to Energy project of Procter and Gamble sometime in 2018.
That, she said, was obviously meant to embarrass her and the whole city in the eyes of the international community.
Mayor Fernandez visits the dumpsite every morning as her normal routine to observe the progress of collection of 18 to 20 truckloads of garbage to be sent to the Urdaneta landfill. (Leonardo Micua)
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