The Support of Pomasqui Residents Was Key to Controlling the Fire on Mount Casitagua
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The forest fire in Cerro Casitagua is still active and on Monday, September 21, it is five days after it has started. It is located in the sector of Pomasqui, in the northwestern part of Quito, and in its skirts are settled several neighborhoods with thousands of inhabitants, who during these days feared that the flames would consume their roof.
During work against the fire in Casitagua, firefighters from Quito inspected a funeral structure after an alert on two alleged coffins
About five days of combat left the forest fire in Cerro Casitagua under control, but the emergency is still not over. The teams remain deployed to wipe out the hot spots that could reactivate the flames. The conditions of the terrain complicated the work. The ravines, the rugged zones and the changes in direction and intensity [...]
The finding occurred among the tasks of controlling the voracious fire that still maintains hot spots on Mount Castigua.
Neighbors risk their lives with shovels to save their homes, a cameraman found a mysterious coffin and expert explains the losses in flora and fauna
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