MADRID, Spain.- During these days the Cuban regime will deliver 18 houses to the families that lost their homes due to the fire in the Matanzas Supertanker Base, It happened in August of last year.
According to statements to the official newspaper Granma According to Hidovaldo Díaz Martínez, coordinator of objectives and programs in the provincial government, the houses “are comfortable, of the Sandino construction system, most of them with progressive ease (which can be expanded and modified), with ceramic stoneware floors, veneered countertops and a laundry room. exterior, located in a development area on the outskirts of the main city, an area in the process of urbanization and in which several programs converge”.
As for the properties to be completed, to reach a total of 26, their completion is expected during the current month. Of these pending homes, five are three-bedrooms for mothers with three children, authorities said.
Due to the fire that occurred at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, one of the greatest tragedies that Cuba has experienced in recent years, some twenty families lost their homes due to the fuel spill.
Due to the incident, 146 people were injured and 17 died, of which 14 were firefighters, whose bodies could not be identified. The other three deceased died hospitalized.
The death of these firefighters, several of whom were undergoing Compulsory Military Service (SMA), unleashed the #NoAlServicioMilitarObligatorioEnCuba campaign on social networks.
In January of this year, the regime announced that work was beginning to restore the first of the four wrecked tanks.
The lack of essential elements in places like this, including the adequate distance between the tanks, having powerful foam cannons and the concrete lining to prevent the collapse of the structure, led to the magnitude of the accident.
