By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta
HAVANA – Cuba sought on Sunday to carry beneath management a fireplace at its primary oil storage facility that has killed one firefighter, drawing on assist from Mexico and Venezuela to battle the raging flames.
A lightning strike on Friday ignited one in all eight storage tanks on the Matazanas tremendous tanker port 60 miles east of Havana. A second tank caught fireplace on Saturday, catching firefighters and others on the scene without warning. Sixteen folks had been lacking.
The second explosion injured greater than 100 folks, many first responders, and 24 stay hospitalized, 5 of these in important situation.
“We face a fireplace of such magnitude that it is rather troublesome to regulate in Cuba, the place there aren't all of the means which might be required,“ Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel informed reporters.
On Sunday, 82 Mexican and 35 Venezuelan personnel skilled in combating gas blazes joined the trouble, bringing 4 planeloads of fire-fighting chemical substances.
“The assistance is vital, I'd say that it's critical and it's going to be decisive,” Diaz-Canel stated. Cuba had been utilizing water and helicopters to battle the flames.
Jorge Pinon, director of the College of Texas at Austin’s Latin America and Caribbean Power and Atmosphere Program, stated every tank on the facility might retailer 300,000 barrels and supplied gas to electrical vegetation.
Cuba has been struggling day by day blackouts and gas shortages. The lack of gas and storage capability is prone to irritate the state of affairs, which has spurred small native protests in the previous few months.
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