Cuban denounces danger of collapse of two buildings in Havana

A Cuban citizen denounced the critical state in which two buildings are about to collapse in the municipalityHavana Center of the capital, one of which is where the complainant resides.

“A user residing in Havana sends us this video in which he denounces the terrible state of two buildings in danger of collapse, one of which is his home. 'The building is collapsing, in the expectation that it will collapse,' he says," the independent media reported via X.The touch.

Although the information does not specify the exact location of both buildings, it was possible to verify that the properties are located on adjacent corners of the intersection of San Lázaro and Perseverancia streets, in the San Leopoldo neighborhood.

While one of them is evicted and propped up, neighbors still reside in the complainant's building, although some of them have already been moved to temporary shelters.

“As you see, both buildings are deteriorated. One of them had its walls removed twenty-odd years ago and it's still there, propped up. The other one, where I live, is the same, destroyed. It is collapsing and we are waiting for it to collapseas happened with the building in Old Havana [on Lamparilla Street],” indicated the affected person.

From the roof of his property, the complainant showed images of cracks in walls and ceilings, as well as piles of debris caused by small collapses and collapsed ceilings.

Going down some stairs of fragile structure, the man showed the total collapse of the ceiling above the stairs, which the neighbors climb with the sky above their heads. Stopping in front of a closed door, the complainant indicated that it was the home of neighbors who had already been evicted.

The apartment in question, which he showed through a gap in the front door, faces the corner of the street and is a ruin on the verge of collapsing. According to the reporter, its former inhabitants are installed in a school that acts as a temporary shelter.

At the beginning of October, a multi-family building located on Lamparilla Street No. 362, between Villegas and Aguacate, in the Habana Vieja municipality,suffered a double collapse that left neighbors and rescuers buried.

After a second collapse of the building, two firefighters were trapped in the rubble.Luis Alejandro Llerena Martínez, a professional rescuer of only 23 years, entered the building after a first collapse, along with other members of the 15th Command of the Fire Department, when a second collapse of the building occurred, and he was buried by rubble.

In addition to Llerena, the firefighter also diedYoandra Suarez Lopez, 40 years old, due to "asphyxiation, suffocation and thoracoabdominal compression," according to Public Health authorities. Suárez was a rescue and rescue technician, with more than 11 years in the job. The lifeless body ofRamón Páez Frómeta, a 79-year-old Cuban man, was extracted shortly after.

Although the rulerMiguel Díaz-Canel promised "all the help" to the families affected by the collapse in Old Havana, these wererehoused in a Cuban Tabaco facility in terrible conditions, after having initially been housed in a school without the minimum necessary conditions.