The firefighters of Tultepec "died like heroes"

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Melchor Ocampo, Mexico.- "The desire to help is already in them," said Alfredo González Guzmán uncle of Guillermo Lira González, a young firefighter from this municipality who died at Explosions in pyrotechnics workshops at La Saucera Tultepec, recorded the morning of July 5.

Lira González was 27 years old and four years ago started as a volunteer firefighter for Melchor Ocampo. I studied medicine and law, this one was about to end.

"The desire to help people is already there.Many times his mother told him to stop doing it, and he continued to help."

The government of Melchor Ocampo paid tribute to Commander Mario Lino Salinas Deputy Fire Chief with 25 years of experience, Guillermo Lira González and Nazario Guzmán Juárez the last of 22 years and an experience.

In Tultepec they also paid tribute to firefighter Agustín Soto García, paramedic Marco Antonio González Martínez and policemen Fernando Fabricio Becerra Huerta and Jesús David Martínez Durán

With applause, sticks, the crying and pyrotechnics the four elements of Tultepec were fired, which were affected by the fire and the projectiles launched by operating workshops of pyrotechnic products in La Saucera. "For me, he has always been a hero, he died as he wanted, it was always his passion, all this deserves it, it is the example that has left us," he said. said the wife of Soto Garcia, who left four young orphans.

Compensation. The mayor of Tultepec, Armando Portuguez announced that relatives of deceased elements will receive 300 thousand pesos, in addition to the social security benefits offered by ISSEMyM.

The commander Héctor Elorriaga Mejía interviewed Melchor Ocampo, said that several times the work of firefighters is not recognized and asked "the authorities to turn to us."

He stated that in collections of the Red Cross authorities give up to 50 ambulances to the institution, although they do not Not so with firefighters, who need adequate equipment for their work.

"If they invested in social communication, we would have them all equipped" Miguel Ángel Román Sánchez, director of civil protection and firefighters of Melchor Ocampo said that two of the deceased firefighters were very young and the other, the commander Mario Lino, of great experience

He added that seven elements of the civil protection and firefighters of Melchor Ocampo came to support Tultepec and were just beginning to prepare when the explosion occurred.