The fire department of the city of Santa Clara put out a fire that broke out in that city this Thursday caused by a motorbike. Apparently there was only material damage.
The accident took place in Padre Tidurí between Máximo Gómez and Juan Bruno Zayas, as revealed on social networksCMHW The Radio Queen of the Center.
The aforementioned official source shared several photos on social networks in which the burned vehicle is seen in the vicinity of a home.
The note did not specify whether the fire originated inside the home's garage, although it apparently did judging by visible damage inside the house.
"Once again the authorities called on the population to maintain safety measures to avoid these types of accidents," concluded the official source.
In Cuba, electric motorcycle fires while carrying out their charging process have been frequent in recent years, leaving in their wake a wide trail of material damage that unfortunately in some cases has led to injuries or deaths.
Although in recent months reports on social media of such incidents seem to give indications of a slight decrease in the number of cases, it still remains a frequent problem throughout the country.
In one of the fatal events of this type, in September of last year the explosion of a motorbike battery unleashed a raging fire in the area known as Casitas de Kohly, in Vedado, Havana, andclaimed the life of a 15-year-old teenager and injured 18 other people.
That was one of themore than 300 fires originating in vehicles with lithium batteries which were suffocated by firefighters in 2023, according to Major Jercy González Longo, specialist in the Extinction Department of the Cuban Fire Department (CBC).
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