MEXICO CITY — Some 200 firefighters battled an enormous blaze in Mexico Metropolis’s sprawling wholesale market Thursday evening with none reported accidents.
The Central de Abasto provides the capital’s different neighborhood markets, eating places and different elements of the nation.
Mexico Metropolis Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned the fireplace began in an space of the market the place picket pallets and crates are constructed and saved, which means there was substantial gasoline on a breezy night.
Flames leaped excessive into the evening sky fed by swirling winds, however firefighters reported having the fireplace largely beneath management after a number of hours.
The market’s administration mentioned in an announcement late Thursday that the fireplace began round 7 p.m. and affected an space that included 359 stands that produced and offered cardboard packing containers, picket crates and pallets.
The remainder of the market promoting produce and flowers would function as common Friday, the administration added through Twitter.
The market covers greater than 800 acres (327 hectares) within the capital’s most populated borough, Iztapalapa, and claims to be the world’s largest wholesale market. Thirty % of Mexico’s meals manufacturing is offered by the market, in response to its web site.