(MENAFN) After raging for five days, a large fire at a fuel storage facility in Cuba has finally been put out. The site has been wrecked, and the island's capacity to generate energy has been put at risk.
Officials from the Interior Ministry went on state television on Tuesday to declare that firemen had put out the Matanzas oil depot fire, but they provided no information on the amount of gasoline that was lost during the previous five days or an estimate of the total losses.
Standing at the site, Rolando Vecino, director of transportation for the ministry, made the statement, “today we have managed to control the fire.”
A lightning strike last Friday burned one of the eight gasoline tanks at the site, which started the fire. By Saturday, the fire had spread to a second tank and was responsible for many large explosions. Over the course of the following two days, two additional containers were also damaged.
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