Mexico City has warned residents to remain indoors as forest and brush fires carpet the metropolis in smoke. In recent days, 258 firefighters have been dispatched to extinguish 13 brush fires, four fires on barren plots of land, two house fires, a forest fire and a blaze at an industrial warehouse in the capital. In the nearby state of Mexico, 992 firefighters have been sent to fight 30 fires. “We’re like cockroaches -- It’s hard to kill us.” Meza blames the city’s increasingly high levels of air pollution on global warming. Curtains of smoke have blanketed the capital in recent days, blurring visibility at street level— especially at night— and invading nostrils with the smell of smoke.

Source: thestar May 12, 2019 18:45 UTC