A fire consumed another house in Central Havana in the early hours of this Wednesday, according to reports on social networks.
“10 minutes ago (4:25 am) I called the fire department, and they had already called, but I still haven’t heard the sirens. The explosion woke me up, and the smell of melted plastic made me peek out and there was a house on fire on a 2nd floor at Neptuno and San Francisco, Centro Habana”, reported on Twitter the user who identifies himself as Rixon404.
The tweeter told this newsroom that, although a strong explosion was felt, he cannot ensure that the cause of the accident was, as usual, the explosion of an electric motorcycle.
This Tuesday, a video began to circulate on social networks showing the voracious fire in which seven people died, two of them children, in the early morning of June 28after being trapped by the flames derived from the explosion of two motorinas.
In the images, which last just under a minute, the dialogue between several neighbors surprised by the magnitude of the fire is heard.
Magalys León lived in the house, who worked as economic manager of ARTEX Cultural Centers and her adult children -one female and one male- with their respective partners. The two deceased minors, Kevin Bernal López (4 years old) and Carolina Bernal López (6) were children of one of the couples.
After the fatal fire in the house, located at 159 Perseverancia Street, between Ánimas and Virtudes, the authorities cordoned off the area and proceeded to shore up the house.
Also at the end of June at least two people were injured and another four had to be evacuated during a fire in a house in the Diez de Octubre municipality of Havana.
In recent years, the explosion of electric motorcycles has become one of the main causes of fire in the country, causing not only significant material losses to the victims, but also the loss of human lives. However, the fire in Central Havana on June 28 was the deadliest for this cause that has been reported to date in Cuba.
