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10. Aug. 2022 · Firefighters on Tuesday finally overcame what officials described as the worst fire in Cuba’s history that over five days destroyed 40% of the Caribbean island’s main fuel storage facility and...
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7. Aug. 2022 · Cuban authorities say a fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility is raging uncontrolled in the city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing.
7. Aug. 2022 · Fire started by a lightning strike has engulfed an oil storage facility in the Cuban city of Matanzas, setting off explosions and injuring 121 people. Seventeen firefighters were missing and one...
6. Aug. 2022 · A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled Saturday in the city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured nearly 80 people and left 17...
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Lightning struck a fuel storage tank at the Matanzas Supertanker Base during an evening storm. The tank was at half capacity, containing nearly 25,000 cubic metres of fuel. Locals said a "very big explosion" went off at about 8pm. The fire burned through the night, with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visiting the scene at about midnight. Mr Diaz...
The blaze appeared completely out of control by Saturday morning, Reuters reported. Here's drone footage from just before 2am, tweeted from Cuba's official presidential account: A second fuel storage tank exploded at about 5am. This time, the tank was full. "[It was] so big it lit up the area like the sun," local resident Alfredo Gonzalez said. Cub...
Reinforcements were bought in, with 82 Mexican and 35 Venezuelan firefighters experienced in fuel blazes joining the effort and bringing four plane loads of fire-fighting chemicals. By this point, the death of one firefighter has been confirmed. Susely Morfa Gonzalez, head of the Communist Party in Matanzas, told local reporters "there are no flame...
Matanzas province Governor Mario Sabines confirmed the third tank had caught fire and collapsed. He compared the situation to an "Olympic torch" going from one tank to the next, turning each into a "cauldron". Fears turned to a fourth tank which at this point was threatened, but was yet to catch alight. At about midday, authorities announced Cuba's...
It was confirmed that fire spread to the fourth tank. More helicopters were tasked with fighting the blaze, assisted by two fireboats sent by Mexico. But there was good news. "Today we have managed to control the fire," head of transport for the Ministry of the Interior Rolando Vecino said on state-run television. Later in the day firefighters ente...
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6. Aug. 2022 · A massive oil-fed fire burned for a second day on Saturday near Cuba's supertanker port in Matanzas, as Mexico and Venezuela sent teams to help fight the inferno and Cuba accepted a U.S....
7. Aug. 2022 · A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters...
