So far from 2025, 74 forest fires have been registered that have affected more than 10,000 hectares in the state of San Luis Potosí, as shared by the head of the State Coordination of Civil Protection, Mauricio Ordaz Flores, during the national drill. The work is so much, that it has saturated the fire Department, and in some cases there is no necessary infrastructure to address any incident, such is the case of Mexquitic.
Two weeks ago in Mexquitic de Carmona, the inhabitants of the municipality faced for more than seven hours a forest fire without the necessary equipment and without much help from the three levels of government.
The volunteers point out that this is not the only time in which with their own means they fight a sinister, they ensure that the knowledge to act before a fire has it, then They received training from the Directorate of Ecology and the National Forestry Commission, but their complaint was born because they were promised that they would return to give them equipment, but everything was in words.
People who risked their lives for seven hours point out that they are not fair not to value their work, since they demand that they be fulfilled with the team that were promised to do what is concerned with others.
