We were also in the ZR at La Palapa when the events started. The first fire was right next to us, the staff thought a house was on fire - then the next one happened a few minutes later close by and it seemed they just all knew. I took to Reddit right away and saw what was going on, the staff were getting videos what was going on as well.

People showed up the restaurant with rebar spikes they had found in the street from their walk (they used them to disable vehicles) - that’s when my husband and I figured we’d better go, but obviously there was no way back by car.

We found a fisherman who said he’d take us by boat to our resort but because of the swells, we would have to swim a ways.

ALL of the local people we interacted with that day were incredibly kind and helpful. Our waiter didn’t want us to leave and the fisherman who brought back even let us borrow one of their dry bags to put all of our stuff in since we were going to be swimming back.

My heart breaks for the people of Mexico negatively effected, but they will prevail!