According to the official press reports, there were no fatal victims.
Miami, United States. -A fire of “medium proportions” affected five homes and the bar-cafeteria the refuge at the intersection of Panchito Gómez and General Peraza streets, in the city of Yaguajay, without loss of human lives, according to the newspaper the newspaper Escambray.
According to the medium, at dawn on Monday, specialized forces of the Ministry of Interior investigated the causes of the incident. Preliminarily, it was confirmed that the greatest effects occurred in the gastronomic premises and in three of the adjoining housing, with total damage to ceilings and structures.
Escambray He indicated that commissions had been created to evaluate damages and serve families (one of them was transferred to a territory accommodation unit).
The Yaguajay firefighters command went first and then received support from its counterparts from Sancti Spíritus and Cabaiguán. Neighbors collaborated to protect belongings and contain the spread of fire. A resident, Yeni Pérez Cárdenas, said that the custodian of a particular establishment warned of the flames and that the fire gained strength in a few minutes from the roof of El Refugio. “People supported everything they could climb on the ceilings and avoided the spread of the flames,” he said.
In a posterior chronicle of Escambray It was specified that the control post of the Yaguajay Fire Department received the fire alarm at 10:20 pm this Sunday, and that the endowment of command 5 came to the site of the incident in a Zil-131 truck.
Upon arriving the specialized forces, they verified that the fire devoured the ceiling of the installation – constructed about 100 years ago, with masonry walls but with old wood structures – and that it extended to the surrounding homes. The report emphasizes that the firefighters who faced the incident were average age of 18 and had entered a month before to fulfill the active military service (SMA).
