Cuban firefighters had to abort a “foam offensive” against the fire at the Matanzas super tanker base, due to a change in the wind direction, and they are still on edge due to the third tank on fire, with its “screeching” structure due to the high ambient temperatures and the tank itself, he informed CyberCuba a company boss, who declined to be identified.
“The first foam offensive did not prosper, it was canceled because the wind changed course, in the middle of the operation; although we were able to shoot down tank 52,” he assured.
The third tank that was set on fire is very hot, from the wind, the sun, the heat, and its “walls creak, again, and that is very bad and ugly.” We have incorporated more pumps and “we are pouring water into it in industrial quantities, this looks like a sea! But the fever still hasn’t gone down,” he described.
The strategy is clear, we have to cool the third tank on fire, but the heat and the wind make our plan for water and more water difficult; for what we are using Mexican technique; so “we’re going to hold off until the air and ambient temperatures die down, or at least the wind changes course.” Current conditions and the complexity of the fires leave us with no other choice, he added.
Tank 52 no longer represents a danger; although it will have to be repaired or replaced with a new one; the second set on fire and still on fire, must have 30% crude oil left; that is, it still has “material for hours of burning,” he detailed.
Chinese, Venezuelans and Mexicans are outlining strategies, together with the mobile command, but I want you to say that “here we are Cubans who know what we should do in a situation like this; it is important that it be known.”
Up to the time of publishing this note, the Cuban government has not reported the presence of Chinese experts in the work of extinguishing the fire at the Matanzas Super Tanker Base, where the Mexicans were received with a political act and if it reported the arrival of specialists from Venezuela.
You should also clarify that “no company or command chief sends anyone to die. Nobody! A company chief is a father, a brother, a friend, who takes care of our people and never abandons them; mistakes we can all make , but none of us undertake and order actions that endanger our men,” he emphasized.
In this profession if you don’t have love for this, quit now. Everything is a danger, everything and, “at any moment you can have an accident or burn to death”, but we are cured of fear. “We are human and it also scares us. No one wants to die,” but we are respectful of the protocols of action and we know what the limits are, he underlined without wanting to refer to his colleagues reported as disappeared; “Later,” she pleaded.
We go in, we attack the fire and we go out and; If things get really bad, I order my men out because “fire kills, even though it seems that we are used to living with that danger,” he concluded.