2024-04-29 07:16:26
The port bay woke up covered in a dense layer of smoke, after three consecutive days of forest fires that destroyed the El Veladero national park, in Acapulco Guerrero, and that the flames put neighbors at risk.
Through social networks, various users shared photographs that show how the usual blue sky turned into a dense and gray landscape.
The Guerrero Secretariat of Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection reported that the conflagrations have been 65 percent controlled.
During the night of Wednesday and the early hours of Thursday, personnel from the Fire Department, the National Defense and the National Forestry Commission worked to prevent the fire from spreading.
NO CLASSES AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
The state Secretary of Education (SEG) suspended classes in schools at the basic level, a measure to which the campuses of the Autonomous University of Guerrero in the port joined.
In this regard, the governor of the entity, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, called on the population to avoid outdoor activities and be attentive to updates on the incident that are reported on official channels.
THEY FEAR FOR THEIR HOMES
For their part, residents of the Santa Cecilia neighborhood, in the port, warned that the fire caused by a forest fire is dangerously close to the homes.
On social networks and WhatsApp groups, images of the risky conflagration that has covered the bay with smoke have been spread.
The contamination produced by the fire caused ash to fall in the Infonavit Alta Progreso, Progreso, La Cima, 20 de Noviembre neighborhoods and the valley that begins in the Las Cruces neighborhood.
Another forest fire was reported by residents of 16th Street in the Silvestre Castro neighborhood, where the fire started at 3:00 p.m. yesterday.
MANAGE AIRCRAFT SUPPORT
For its part, the municipal government reported that aircraft support to put out the fires affecting Acapulco is already being negotiated with the federation.
In a statement, he asked to avoid burning garbage or leaf litter, and not throw lit matches or cigarettes on the road, fields or dry land, as they can start a fire.
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2024-04-29 07:16:26