Arson Suspected At New Belgium’s Asheville, NC Brewery [VIDEO]

Friday evening around 11:00pm police and firefighters responded to two fires occupying the location of the future New Belgium Brewery site in Asheville, North Carolina.

Although there were no reports of injuries, investigators are calling the fires suspicious after another skeptical fire happened just days earlier this week. City Manager Gary Jackson stated, “This particular site is secured by a fence to the extent that a fence can secure a site. There is evidence of people climbing the fence.”

Should the fires turn out to be arson City Councilman Gordon Smith plans to make sure it doesn't keep occurring. “If the investigation determines that it’s arson, then it’s very disturbing and a dangerous situation and we’re going to devote every resource we can to making sure that whoever’s doing it doesn't get to keep doing it," said Smith.

Construction crews have been in the process of demolition on the site to prepare for the construction of New Belgium's new brewery which was anticipated to produce roughly 400,000 barrels of their brews beginning in 2015.

Although New Belgium has not begun construction of the new building they still suffered a loss as they had plans on using as much of the materials that were burned for the construction of the new brewing facility.

[Citizen-Times]