This Saturday reports poor air quality in the Valley of Mexico, with a maximum of 118 points of suspended particles (PM10) in the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, State of México, reported the atmospheric monitoring system.
The organism reported that in the state of México, Tepotzotlán and Tultitlan There is also poor air quality with 109 points of the pollutant in each case, as in Cuatitlán with 101 points.
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#CalidadDelAire Time report: pic.twitter.com/T5Aqyw3TdZ
— Air quality (@Aire_CDMX) May 11, 2019
In Mexico City, the municipalities Iztapalapa, Tláhuac, Azcapotzalco, Cuauhtemoc and Álvaro Obregón registered 110, 105, 104, 102 and 101 points, respectively.
The center of Command, Control, computation, communications and citizen contact of Mexico City (C5) indicated that in the capital is perceived since yesterday a smell of smoke, due to five fires.
The fire in a vacant lot of Cuajimalpa and another in the Cerro de la Estrella, in Iztapalapa, were already controlled at 100%, but there are at least four others.
Personnel of firemen and corena work in attention to fire of grass in the Cerro San Jerónimo, located in the Colonia San Jerónimo Miacatlán, in the mayor of Milpa Alta.
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In Tlalpan the emergency services continued with the work to extinguish the dry pasture fire on kilometer 11 of the highway Picacho-Ajusco in the colony the Zacatón.
Another forest fire occurred on the road to Los Dinan, from the Colony Tierra Unidas, in the mayor’s office La Magdalena Contreras.
The smell of smoke that is perceived in much of the #CDMX is due to the fires recorded during the course of the day in different areas of the city, remember that before any emergency you can call the #911CDMX: https://t.co/ezQi8IAEg5
— C5 CDMX (@C5_CDMX) May 11, 2019
Firefighters came to suffocate a new fire in a vacant lot located on San Antonio Abad and Chimalpopoca, mayor of Cuauhtémoc.
In the face of these incidents, the capital authorities recommended taking precautions or avoiding risk areas.
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