It took three days for the Puerto Plata firemen to put out the fire at the Sosua municipal garbage dump that sent dense smoke clouds affecting health, transport and educational activities. Two public schools had to be evacuated.
Province governor Iván Rivera, in his condition as president of the Prevention, Mitigation and Response Committee of the Province (PMR) and the Puerto Plata Air Force Base commander Colonel Cesar Edgardo Severino Santana assisted Sosua mayor Ilana Neumann to put out the stubborn fire. Several businesses sent water tanker trucks to assist the firemen.
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El Caribe
11 February 2019
