Overview
- The fire that tore through Alimentación para el Bienestar’s Zacatecas hub Tuesday left 16 warehouses over more than three hectares destroyed.
- Fire crews from Zacatecas, Guadalupe, Jerez, Calera, Fresnillo, Trancoso and Colotlán worked for hours, evacuating about 20 people and removing roughly 17 vehicles as a nearby gas station shut down as a precaution.
- Intense heat caused part of the metal structure to collapse after four forklift gas tank blasts, and three emergency workers received medical treatment.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said the national prosecutor’s office will lead the probe, with forensic teams assessing whether tire burning at a farmers’ protest sparked the blaze or if it was set on purpose.
- Alimentación para el Bienestar and Leche para el Bienestar said they would file criminal complaints and launched contingency routes to keep stores supplied after reported losses of more than 6 million pesos in food and about 4.3 million pesos in powdered milk.