Our Mall was on Fire.
Yesterday afternoon a major fire tore through one of our local malls, Plaza Sendero. Thankfully, from what we’ve heard so far, injuries were very few and minor.
However, I can’t imagine there were too many stores that weren’t damaged in some way.
According to current reports it was due to a short circuit. There was structural damage due to the heat, and many stores were totally destroyed.
Here are a couple of news stories – in Spanish, of course, but there are pictures and video:
- Short Circuit, cause of fire in Plaza Sendero-Ixtapaluca (a couple of pictures, but scroll down for a video with quite a bit of footage) (read the Google translated version here, but the video may not work through this link)
- After five hours, they control the fire in the plaza of Ixtapaluca (video and pictures) (Google translated version here)