A fire that broke out this Wednesday morning in Havana affected four homes in a citadel in the municipality of Diez de Octubre. There is only news of the incident through a brief comment on the social network X (before Twitter), by Lisara Corona, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in that municipality.
As he explained, the flames, which caused a dense column of smoke, were put out thanks to "the quick action of the Fire Department, the Police, Health, Labor and Social Security" and "community factors." One Internet user (E.S.) differs from this version, who shared a video on Facebook stating that the Firefighters took 30 minutes to arrive and that the hoses were not enough to get close to the homes that were burning at that time.
In addition, Corona assures that there have been no personal injuries. "No damage to people's health is regretted," he stated verbatim without clarifying what types of material damage there has been or the consequences that the fire brings for the families residing in the four affected houses, taking into account the housing deficit suffered. the country for decades.
This is the first time, at least in the last eleven months, that the first secretary of the PCC in Diez de Octubre reports on a negative event, in a profile that is dedicated, above all, to sharing propaganda and praising its social work with some families. vulnerable in their municipality. Little, if you take into account that 88% of the Cuban population lives in poverty, according to the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
The explanations of the first secretary of the PCC in Diez de Octubre would prevent the news of the citadel fire from spreading through social networks, as happened at the beginning of January of this year with a fire that broke out in Lawton, after the neighbors decided to burn the garbage that accumulated in the streets of the neighborhood and The flames got out of hand.
In the images shared by the first secretary of the PCC, you can see at least two fire trucks that would have come to extinguish the fire in the citadel. The photos shared on
Four firefighters also appear, one of them without a helmet, looking inside what appears to be a damaged home. On the ground you can see the remains of the foam used by the extinguishing services to put out the flames.
Finally, it shows a medical team of six people who had gone to the scene to take a person's blood pressure. Neither the image nor the accompanying text explains whether the woman being treated is one of those affected by the fire.
In May of last year there was also a fire in Diez de Octubre. The fire affected a home located at the intersection of General Lacret and Morell streets, in this municipality.
The first information published in the Firefighters profile indicated that several city commandos appeared in the Santos Suárez neighborhood to control the flames, which originated in what appeared to be a wooden structure located on the roof of a building. In that case there were no victims to be regretted either.
Also in May of last year, the firefighters of Santiago de Cuba They put out a major fire in a home in that province, in the eastern end of the country. As explained at the time by the head of operations and relief for the Red Cross branch in Santiago, Aris Arias Batalla, a container with gasoline exploded in the utility room where, judging by the photos in the publication, there was also a cylinder. Of gas.
In the same way, at the beginning of May of last year, An electric motorcycle caught fire and burned the garage of a building in the San Matías neighborhood of San Miguel del Padrón, in Havana.
These types of incidents with electric motorcycles occur quite frequently in Cuba. In November of last year, a house caught fire after an electric motorcycle battery exploded in the Diez de Octubre municipality.
One of the most voracious fires that are remembered in Cuba It was produced in 2022 in tank 52 of the Matanzas supertanker base, as a result of an electric shock. The tank contained about 50 thousand cubic meters of oil, half of its total capacity.
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