A fire unleashed this Sunday in an old residential building located in the Havana municipality of Centro Habana was controlled with the participation of several commandos of the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), according to official media on the island.
The fire occurred in the upper apartment 54 of the building located on Principe Street, between Hornos and Hospital streets, according to what was published through its social networks by the Caribbean Channel of Cuban television.
The source points out that, according to what the neighbors narrated, the second floor of the building is declared uninhabitable and the third had collapsed collapsed years ago
The other people in the community were protected while the commandos of firemen three, 15, five and one, belonging to the demarcations of Centros Habana and Vedado, extinguished the flames of the fire.
Until now, the causes of the accident in this building of old construction and with visible traces of deep deterioration had not been disclosed. No fatalities or injuries have been reported.
These types of buildings, which are common in that area of the Cuban capital, have suffered from fires and landslidesthe most recent of them occurred in the middle of this month in the Habana Vieja municipality. It left several injured, including a minor who he later died in hospital.
