Fire swept through the 800-square-meter warehouse of the supermarket Gigante at 4pm, Wednesday, March 22. More than 200 firefighters from around the state of Guanajuato took more than three hours to control the blaze, which peaked at 5:30pm when flames reached approximately 15 meters in height.

Firefighters hampered by lack of water and protective equipment worked all night to ensure that the fire in the supermarket warehouse, which is filled with highly flammable products, was under control. A secondary blaze occurred around 3am Thursday morning but was extinguished in an hour.

One chain supermarket, Gigante, its 800-square-meter warehouse suffered a major fire. It has been determined that the fire was caused when two workmen were soldering in the warehouse. The storerooms are a total loss. Although 20% of the supermarket's goods were damaged, there was no structural damage to the rest of neither the Plaza Real del Conde mall nor the movie theaters. By curious circumstance, the Gigante chain already has under construction another store on the corner opposite the Plaza Real de Conde. The new store, a Super G, is to be finished in December.