And fire of medium proportions registered on Wednesday in the common area of Las Flores, known as the Candonga de Santa Clara, has left considerable economic losses for stall owners.
According to information from journalist Yunier Javier Sifonte, from Telecubanacán, published by the official website Cubadebate, the causes of the accident are being investigated.
Preliminarily, Sifonte reported that between seven and ten points of sale have been affected by the fire, with considerable material losses valued at millions of pesos for the owners of the kiosks. No human losses are reported.
“The local workers themselves and the owners of the affected businesses helped to evacuate other points of sale and put out the fire in just one hour. The quick action of these people was essential to prevent the fire from spreading to other locations,” he added. .
Identified one of the victims of the deadly fire in Central Havana
Marianela Dufflar, communication specialist from the state company Artex, informed this Wednesday through her Facebook profile what one of the victims of the fire that occurred during the early hours of Wednesday in a house in Centro Habana was a worker of the entity.
“How sad for all our workers to learn that it was the home of Magalys León, economic manager of Havana Cultural Centers and their children and grandchildren. Simple, good person, responsible, collaborative, excellent mother, grandmother and work colleague,” Dufflar wrote.
“All the pain of the directors, artists, Artex workers and our deepest condolences to family and friends,” he concluded.
León and six other people, including two minors, died as a result of a fire that allegedly originated from the explosion of electric mopeds. The official information published on Wednesday was still not conclusive about what happened.
In the published images, several charred mopeds are seen in one of the rooms of the house.
The fires caused by electric motorcycles in Cuba have been increasing in recent years, due to poor handling of the load of these vehicles.
Until October 2020, the Cuban Fire Department reported an average of two electric motorcycle fires per day, most of them in Havanasaid an official of that entity in the state Television Newscast.
“Since 2017, fires have been manifested in mopeds or electric motorcycles. In 2019 there were 221 fires and up to October 2020 a total of 485 were reported,” indicates a state television report from May 2020.
Until now, the Cuban authorities have not made public the figures for this type of fire in the last two years.
FUENTE: diariodecuba.com
