In 75 percent the forest fire on the Cerro de San Juan Atzingo has been controlled, belonging to the municipality of San Gabriel Chilac, a sinister that began last Saturday. The injured land complicates to reach some areas explained the auxiliary president José Tomás Palacios Matías.
Meanwhile, a second fire was reported in the territory of Santa Catarina Otzolotepec, auxiliary board of Tehuacán, located in the Sierra Negro where inhabitants launched the voice of help and the community was organized in brigades to deal with the fire while waiting for the arrival of government agencies personnel.
The auxiliary president of Atzingo recognized the work they have done in the area of the incident all the brigades among whom is personnel of the Coyote and Jaguar units, as well as the reserve of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere, Civil Protection, both of the municipality and the state and volunteers of San Juan, San Pedro Tetitlán and Tehuacán, who joined the work.
He said that there are places of difficult access and that is why it was not possible to quell the fire during Sunday, despite the fact that the work started from an early hour, with more than 60 people.
On the other hand, inhabitants of Santa Catarina Otzolotepec, auxiliary board of this municipality, warned that, in the area known as El Mixteco, another forest fire was generated, also since Saturday, but it was Monday when people organized themselves to begin fighting it, because it had already extended threatening to get out of control.
With machetes, blades and other utensils people arrived at the place beginning to open the trench cuts fire, in order to fence the flames and thus prevent the fire from moving faster.
The inhabitants called on both municipal and state corporations to support the fire fighting, the population was also requested to collaborate with water, food and moisturizing beverages for those who stayed in the area trying to contain the incident.
At the close of this edition, both fires were still active, but neither the Chilac City Council, to which San Juan Atzingo belongs, nor that of Tehuacán to which Santa Catarina Otzolotepec corresponds, issued reports on the state of their respective areas nor the actions that as a government carried out to combat the fire.
