Home Michoacán Burn with torches the Cerro de Jicalán, in Uruapan, Michoacán
Uruapan, Michoacán.-Unknown subjects used torches to provoke a fire in the Cerro de Jicalán, located in this municipality. After nine hours of fighting the fire was turned off by the firefighters and the villagers, but moments later the criminals again caused the burning.
The aforementioned was known in the journalistic work. It went down that around six o’clock last Saturday the residents of the natural area in reference reported to the police that some strangers had lit fire with torches to the trees of Cerro de Jicalán.
Faced with the situation to the area of Civil protection firefighters of the state, volunteer firefighters of Uruapan, professional firefighters of Uruapan, as well as other corporations and community volunteers.
It transpired that it was approximately nine hours that the lifeguards fought the flames. The fire was turned off about three o’clock this Sunday morning, so ratified it PC. Even in a press release this same day it was stressed that the fire had already been controlled, however during the afternoon of this same Sunday government contacts claimed that new account unidentified individuals again burned another part Of the Cerro de Jicalán.
The rescuers continue with the necessary work to end the fire. The community members asserted this wording, without revealing their identity through reprisals, that the generators of these fires are individuals seeking to sow avocado trees.
