Four military helicopters equipped with 2,500 liter tanks drop seawater to try to extinguish the gas spilled from the three collapsed tanks that burns in the vicinity of this storage center.
This strategic facility for Cuba is located in the industrial belt of Matanzas, a port city of 140,000 inhabitants 100 km east of Havana.
The firefighting teams were preparing a fifth helicopter on Tuesday morning, while firefighters from Cuba, Mexico Y Venezuela They work guided by specialists in oil fires of the three countries.
“The fire crews continue to make way for the flames so that the brigades in charge of providing the foam can advance in the cooling of the place,” said the governor of Matanzas, mario sabineson his Twitter account.
Sabines added that the smoke leaves very little visibility in the area, which is why drones are used in order to act with greater precision when putting out the fire.
The uncontrolled fire broke out in Cuba on Friday night after lightning struck one of the eight tanks at this fuel storage base.
By Monday morning, the incident had spread to a third tank and is threatening to set fire to a fourth, each with a capacity of 50 million liters of fuel.
Authorities clarified Monday that two of the people who had been declared missing were among the 22 injured who remain hospitalized, but 14 remain unaccounted for.
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Of the 125 wounded who have been treated in hospitals in Matanzas and Havana, 103 were discharged.
A total of 17 flights, 13 from Mexico and 4 from Venezuela, have arrived since Saturday night at the nearby airport of Varadero40 kilometers north of Matanzas, with technicians, firefighters, equipment and substances to control the fire.
A logistics support ship of the Mexican Armed Forces With a helicopter on its deck, it arrived this morning at Matanzas Bay.
Source: Ambito
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