Santiago.- An intense smoke caused by a fire in the Las Lavas landfill, in the municipality of Villa González, affects several sectors there and Navarrete, in this province.
The smoke forced the suspension of teaching at the Gloria Beto school, in Estancia del Yaque, Navarrete, while the residents of that and other sectors have expressed respiratory problems and allergies.
Alex Reynoso
Similarly, neighbors reported smoke problems in the Navarrete hospital area and ensure that it also affects the patients of the health center due to its intensity.
At the school, classes were suspended indefinitely due to the smoke from the open-air landfill, located in the Las Lavas community of Villa González.
The school has 502 students in the initial and basic levels, while the school authorities affirm that the landfill makes it impossible to teach there.
Osmaury Toribio, director of the school and residents of the community affirm that the health of everyone, students and neighbors, is in danger due to the smoke and contamination produced by the landfill.
Toribio regretted having to suspend teaching, but he assures that he is obliged to suspend classes because since last Monday the landfill woke up on fire and on Tuesday he decided to withdraw the students and all the staff from the campus that remains in the vicinity of the landfill.
From various sectors of Navarrete and Villa González, complaints are reported in the media about the situation to which they are exposed and complain of respiratory problems, allergies and other ills that they attribute to pollution and smoke.
A dense column of smoke rises from the landfill, while members of the fire brigade made efforts to control the fire yesterday.
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The inconvenience keeps Estancia Nueva and other sectors and communities of Navarrete in a state of despair where the wind carries the smoke, bad smell and contamination that extends for several kilometers.
The inhabitants of the affected area ask the authorities to definitively close the dump, which has been operating in the open for several years and every time it is set on fire by unscrupulous people, all productive and school activities in that town must be paralyzed.
