Overview
- The national fire service reported 91 fires in Lima from midnight to about 1 p.m., updating an earlier municipal figure of 77.
- Authorities attributed most outbreaks to mishandled fireworks that set roofs, vacant lots and dry vegetation alight.
- A high‑complexity code‑3 fire at a Santa Anita pyrotechnics workshop drew more than 20 units and about 70 firefighters, and one man was hospitalized for inhalation.
- San Juan de Lurigancho registered a code‑3 blaze, and about 200 meters of vegetation burned on the Miraflores Costa Verde cliffs, according to brigadier mayor Javier Erken.
- Firefighter ambulances handled roughly 35 medical emergencies, vehicle crashes numbered around 20, and crews responded to about 10 GLP gas‑leak incidents; Miraflores reiterated its pyrotechnics ban with fines over S/15,000 for sellers and S/5,150 for users.