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October 22, 2007

Tijuana, Border Towns Affected By Harris Fire

 
Little has been mentioned of the fire threat to Mexico border towns like Tijuana and Tecate. Reuters as well as news services in New Zealand and Canada have taken notice.

From Reuters:

"TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Raging wildfires in Southern California cloaked neighboring Mexican cities in a fog of suffocating ash on Monday, shutting schools and businesses and a major U.S.-Mexico border crossing.

The normally bustling city of Tijuana, just 20 miles (32 km) from San Diego County, where seven fires burned, virtually closed down as residents stayed indoors and those who ventured out walked around with paper masks over their mouths.

A thin gray ash covered houses and cars and blotted out the sun in the Pacific port of Rosarito and the city of Tecate, where U.S. and Mexican officials closed the busy border crossing.

"You can feel the heat of the fires from here. There's ash everywhere, it is falling like rain,"

If the Harris Fire does reach the sea as predicted it will be impossible to keep flames from Tijuana Mexico and their nearly 2 million residents.

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Comments:
Great job with this blog. My family has been displaced as of Monday from North County San Diego. We have been staying in Rosarito and while we are in no real fire danger the air is hard to breathe -the masks have helped a lot. The locals here have been wonderful! Thank you MX for your hospitality...rest assured we will return the favor. Saludos!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : October 24, 2007 1:48 PM
 
Why is danger tijuana? I'm spanish and I'm search information about this place. thanks!!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : July 31, 2008 10:00 AM
 
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