Firefighters are fighting forest fires in various parts of Mexico. Several people died. In just two weeks this month, the fire burned an area of over 13,000 hectares.
At least four people have died in ongoing forest fires in Mexico. As President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Wednesday, all the victims came from the state of Mexico, the most populous state neighboring the capital. The dead include a policeman, a forest worker and two residents of small towns. Some houses burned down.
On Wednesday, 120 fires were fought across the country. More than 7,100 firefighters took part in firefighting operations.
A day earlier, it was reported that an area of at least 600 hectares had burned in the central-eastern state of Veracruz. The Minister of Civil Protection of the state of Guadalupe Osorno said that the fires do not pose a threat to any of the cities, therefore there is no need to evacuate the population.
Hundreds of fires in two weeks
According to available data quoted by the Reuters news agency, by March 15, about 400 fires were recorded throughout the country, as a result of which over 13,000 people were devastated. ha. A small part of them erupted in the south, in the state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala.
The causes of the fires include agricultural activity and intentional arson. The fire spreads easily due to strong winds and ongoing drought. On Monday, wildfires occurred in nearly half of drought-stricken states.
Reuters, infobae.com, AP, tvnmeteo.pl