The Russian Emergencies Ministry will send a group of modern airport fire equipment to Cuba to renovate the Russian-Cuban center for training firefighters and rescuers in Havana.
The Russian authorities, public Sputnik, will support the island with new vehicles to put out the fire with foam. In addition, they will send firefighting equipment for airports, tank trucks and a wide list of specialized implements.
The Russian-Cuban center, which will celebrate a decade of creation in 2024, will now increase its response capacity for emergency situations, said the Emergencies Minister, Alexandr Kurenkov, about the project that has trained experts from 17 countries in these 9 years of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin Press points out that the technical equipment of the center was used to put out the powerful fire that occurred in the Supertanker Base of the city of Matanzas in August 2022.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry also stressed that the Cuban firefighters managed to extinguish the fire thanks to training at their universities.
Forest fires are the most frequent in Cuba. On this date, the island is going through the so-called critical period for fires of this type, which runs from January to May 31, although March and April are the months with the greatest potential for claims, since they coincide with the driest period. .
Even in recent months, some electricity generation facilities have been affected as a result of these incidents.
The most recent occurred in power plant del Mariel as a result of the hot soot given off by the chimneys.
On several occasions, the Unión Eléctrica has reported breakdowns in the transmission lines due to fires.
