At least five injured, one of them serious, is the result of a fire in a resin warehouse in Manzanillo, in the province of Granma. The incident occurred this Thursday around five in the morning in a warehouse of the state company Astilleros del Golfo, reported the official press.
Via telephone with the Celia Sánchez Manduley Hospital, where the injured are treated, this newspaper learned that the person in serious condition is the 35-year-old head of the fire command. Of the rest of the injured, who were also working to put out the fire, at least two of them, aged 19, were conscripts for compulsory military service. The other two were 20 and 21 years old, respectively.
As stated by the head of the burn service, Francisco Andrés Pérez Suárez, to The Demajagua, the seriously ill patient has 15% of the body surface affected, and he warned: “We value, due to the characteristics of the lesions, that it evolves well, but vigilance must be maintained to avoid any complications. It all depends on the local evolution of the burns “. The note also clarifies that “the necessary inputs and resources are available for patient care.”
In the warehouse there were “more than a hundred tanks with resin, catalyst and 40 kg of cobalt, products with flammable characteristics that are used in the manufacture of boats”
The provincial newspaper, which does not explain how the fire started, says that in the warehouse there were “more than a hundred tanks with resin, catalyst and 40 kg of cobalt, products with flammable characteristics that are used in the manufacture of boats”. Some commentators on social networks assured that several explosions were heard in the vicinity of the place and that the flames reached a considerable height. The warehouse is located in an industrial zone where it was necessary to evacuate several workplaces that store chemical materials such as ammonia.
The Astilleros del Golfo, the text highlights, celebrated its 60th anniversary in April and “its group is considered among the six most important in Cuba.”
in the photos published by the provincial media the youth of the wounded is observed, uniformed with insignia of the Ministry of the Interior.
It is not the first time that the Cuban government has used recruits to put out fires, a job that is highly specialized. The most tragic precedent is the disaster of the Supertankers of Matanzasseveral of whose fatalities, 17 in total, were young men undergoing compulsory military service.
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