Firefighters Cubans put down a fire at the tobacco factory Havanaaccording to official information transcended in networks.
The incident broke out this Thursday at the José Martí Tobacco Company (Hhupman), located on Belascoain street, in the municipality of Centro Habana, reported the profile in Facebook of the Cuban Firefighters.
The publication only shared photos of the media mobilized to put out the fire, which apparently did not leave any significant material damage or victims, since the aforementioned profile described it as “beginning of fire.”
The day before it was also known that a fire consumed another house in Centro Habana in the early hours of this Wednesday.
“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.
Also 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.
In these first days of June, other fires have also been reported in the interior of the island.
In the city of Matanzas a fire destroyed a house this weekend and damaged the surrounding areas, with no reported loss of life or injuries.
The incident, which occurred on Domingo Mujica street (306), between Velarde (73) and Daoiz (75), began after an electrical connection in poor condition overheated, Cuban Miriam Quintana, one of the victims, reported on Facebook
On Saturday, in addition, another sinister destroyed three houses in the Gran Panel communityof the municipality of Santa Clara, without the causes having been clarified so far.
