The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
More than 350 firefighters are battling around the clock to extinguish a fierce blaze in the Primavera Forest that has been raging for more than 72 hours.
More than 250 emergency workers from several agencies are battling to extinguish a fierce blaze raging in the Primavera Forest on the western fringe of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
Some 800,000 visitors spent time in metropolitan Guadalajara during Easter Week this year, according to the Jalisco Department of Tourism. Hotel occupancy in the metro area reached 44 percent, up from 42 percent for the same period last year. In Puerto Vallarta, occupancy rates rose to 83 percent, up from 78 percent last year.
10 a.m. Procession from Calle Aldama and Calzada Independencia, following the path of the ten explosions, where ten bronze placards have been placed.
A public preschool opened last August in Tlaquepaque was closed after municipal Civil Protection officials found serious cracks and fissures in classrooms. The April 11 earthquake also lifted paving stones in the main patio. Some 130 kindergarteners were sent home as a preventative measure and the school will remain closed until the damage can be assessed by the city’s public works department.
The question of pipeline safety is still a pertinent one, as recent events in Jalisco have proven. Last week, an explosion in La Villita in the municipality of Tala caused a 50-meter-high fireball, with the subsequent flames burning for eight hours.
The campaign trail brought National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota to Guadalajara this week.
This Sunday, 20 years will have passed since April 22, 1992 became an immortalized date in the minds of Tapatios.
