The press The official reported this Sunday the identities of the deceased and injured in the fire in Central Havana this Saturday. The two fatalities were Yonelsy Cadrelo Rodríguez, 45, and Vladimir Jerez Roselló, 48. Both were residents of the property, located at number 1,058 San José Street, between Espada and San Francisco.
The injured, aged 18, 56 and 61, are also residents of the house where a fire broke out on Saturday at 5:10 a.m. after the battery of an electric motorcycle exploded. Their names are María Karla Román Cadrelo, Segundo César Ochoa Suárez and Teresa Luisa Rosales Fonseca, whose registered address was in Bayamo, Granma.
Of the three injured, it is known that two were serious, while a third was discharged.
The residents in the surroundings of the burned premises told this newspaper that the owner of the property lives outside of Cuba and rents the house. The two deceased, according to the neighbors, tried to help evacuate those who were inside, but they did not manage to get out alive.
Fires due to the explosions of electric motorcycles have been recurring in Cuba since this means of transport became fashionable.
Fires due to the explosions of electric motorcycles have been recurring in Cuba since this means of transport became fashionable. “Since 2017, fires have been manifested in mopeds or electric motorcycles. In 2019 there were 221 fires and until October 2020 a total of 485 were reported,” state television said more than two years ago.
The situation has not improved over time. In September 2022, two people were seriously injured in the fire of a house in Luyanó, in the Havana municipality of Diez de Octubre.
On that occasion, the neighbors told 14ymedio that the fire started at four in the morning due to the combustion of an electric motorcycle that was charging, the same thing that apparently happened this Saturday in Central Havana. The flames were fanned then because the family had several fuel drums stored, another frequent practice on the Island and a source of innumerable dangers.
In June of 2022, the explosion of another motorized when it was being loaded, it caused a fire in the municipality of Cerro that destroyed another 12 vehicles of this type and two cars.
In 2021, a 60-year-old woman and one of her grandchildren, seven, died in a fire caused by the explosion of another motorcycle in Sancti Spíritus, and, months later, another 19-year-old girl died in a Sinister similar in Matanzas.
In December 2020, another such accident just with the lives of two elderly people on the same street as the incident this weekend, San José.
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