Mérida firefighters put out two fires during the early morning hours in Tovar and Libertador

Published at: 03/11/2026 02:20 PM

The Mérida Fire Department, in the early hours of this Tuesday morning, received an emergency call following the report of a vegetation fire in the Los Educadores residential area, El Llano parish, Tovar municipality.

According to information issued by the Ministry of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace (MPPRIJP), when they arrived at the site, they found an active fire affecting vegetation of herbaceous and shrub species on land owned by the municipality.

After this situation, the personnel deployed cooling, removal and suffocation techniques for total flame control.

In this way, the firefighters used hand tools, a forest rake and a frame, together with a line of hoses composed of a 15-meter stretch of 2 ½ inches, a reduction of 1 ½ inches and a 30-meter stretch of 1 ½ inches with a semiautomatic python.

Likewise, in the early hours of the morning, personnel from the Colonel Vicente Campo Elías Headquarters attended an emergency due to structural fire in the Santa Elena sector , Buena Vista residential area, Domingo Peña parish, Libertador municipality.

In addition, in the area of the fire, which was under development inside a room of a single-family house, the commission applied an offensive cooling attack using a 2 ½” hose line reduced to 1 ½” and 700 liters of water, achieving the total extinction of the fire.

It should be noted that the owner suffered smoke inhalation and received pre-hospital care on the spot, while the other citizen was unharmed. The space was cordoned off and the procedure was left to the Fire Investigation Department to determine the causes of the accident.

Mazo News Team