Overview
- The fire near the Sonora market, reported Wednesday in central Mexico City, was controlled after evacuating about 200 people and treating four for smoke, with no deaths.
- Flames spread through a narrow alley on Adolfo Gurrión, where stored materials and makeshift stalls next to the market fueled the burn.
- Preliminary tallies differ, with the mayor citing 25 formal shops and three buildings damaged, while civil protection reported about 100 temporary stalls and four buildings.
- Firefighters, civil protection crews, police, medics, and water tankers from nearby boroughs worked overnight as officers sealed the area and cut power to keep people safe.
- Risk analysts are inspecting the damage and the city prosecutor opened an investigation, a routine step that can set causes and liability after past market fires here in 2015 and 2021.