A motorcycle exploded inside a house in the town of Cruces, in Cienfuegos, with no fatalities reported, witnesses to the event reported this Thursday.
The Facebook profile La Proa del Centro published images of the incident and said that the firefighters were slow to arrive: “They appeared almost when the house was burning,” it stressed.
Fortunately, on this occasion, no loss of human life was reported, as happened last week in Havana, when two motorcycles exploded inside a house and killed seven people, including two children.
“This type of incident has become very frequent on the island,” denounces the post. The Cuban authorities deny your responsibility in these accidents despite the fact that so far this year more than 300 electric motorcycle fires on the island, according to official information released.
At a rate of 1.67 fires per day, accidents involving electric mopeds or lithium batteries have posed considerable risks to people’s lives, the official media outlet acknowledged in a report. Cubadebate.
Jelsy González Longo, a specialist from the National Fire Directorate, explained that since 2019 there have been more than 3,000 fires of this type fought by firefighters.
This week the The Cuban Fire Department published a series of measures to prevent electric motorcycle fires, given the rise in accidents that have claimed the lives of many people and caused considerable material losses.
Among the indications, the firefighters point out letting the motorcycle battery cool down to room temperature, before starting to charge it or starting a journey after having charged it, as well as avoiding the use of homemade or handmade lithium batteries, which are usually a frequent cause. of raging fires.
