{"id":44145,"date":"2022-08-07T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44145"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:55:03","slug":"a-large-scale-fire-is-raging-in-a-fuel-storage-port-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44145","title":{"rendered":"A large-scale fire is raging in a fuel storage port in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire in Cuba at an oil storage base<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 7 . August . 2022 |  world News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A massive oil fire has been raging for a second day near the Cuban supertanker port in Matanzas, Cuba.\u00a0According to the authorities, 121 people were injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lightning struck one of eight storage tanks at the oil storage facility on Friday night.&nbsp;The heat from the flames reached the second tank on Saturday, and the wind carried the fire close to the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuban authorities reported that at least 121 people were injured in the second explosion, of whom 36 remain in hospital, five in critical condition.&nbsp;One person is considered dead, and 17 firefighters are missing.&nbsp;More than 1,000 civilians were evacuated from the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mexico and Venezuela have sent teams to fight the fire, while the US has provided unspecified &#8220;technical advice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire in Cuba at an oil storage base KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 7 . August . 2022 | world News . \u00a0A massive oil fire has been raging for a second day near the Cuban supertanker port in Matanzas, Cuba.\u00a0According to the authorities, 121 people were injured.\u00a0 Details Lightning struck one of eight storage tanks at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[3274,813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-44145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world-news","tag-cuba","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44165,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145\/revisions\/44165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}