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First Colonel Luis Carlos Guzmán Matos, chief of the Fire Department of the Republic of Cuba, reported that the fire that this Friday in one of the national crude oil tanks that feed the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, in Matanzas, was extinguished, without regret. loss of human life.
Minute by minute: Fire in CTE Antonio Guiteras tank
In exclusive statements to the Cuban News Agency, the officer pointed out that it was a fire of regular proportions, with a path of spread, and that thanks to the immediate action of the workers of the Fire Brigade of the entire system, together with the combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), the workers and the people in general, were quickly extinguished.
The presence and participation in the confrontation with the incident of the Fire Brigades, the workers of the CTE Guiteras, provincial authorities, the forces of the Fire Department, the Red Cross, managers of the different ministries and firefighters of the provinces were important. from Mayabeque and Havana, he acknowledged.
Regarding the next steps, he commented that an investigative process will be carried out by the competent bodies, and that from this moment a disciplinary group is already working on the investigation of the causes of the event, which will be followed up appropriately.
Guzmán Matos highlighted the good functioning of the cooling system, based on all the measures that were taken previously, and pointed out that an adequate culture of protection was observed, for which he recognized the center’s workers, because thanks to this the damage was not They were older.
The Antonio Guiteras CTE is the main unitary generation block in Cuba.
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