Posted on 08/07/2022 10:06:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A lighting bolt sparked a massive fire and four explosions at a Cuban oil storage facility Friday, leaving 121 people injured and 17 firefighters unaccounted for, and 1 person dead.
The inferno broke out when lighting hit a tank at the Matanzas Supertanker Base and started a fire that spread to a second tank, according to state media.
Billowing smoke could be seen in Havana, 65 miles away
The oil in the tanks is used to fuel electricity generating plants. The blaze comes as Cuba continues to grapple with an oil shortage
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Unless you are a party member.
that blows...
Oil fires are hell to contain and extinguish.
Not sure why Putin is testing his newest weapons against Cuba, when Europe is right in his neighborhood.
Misleading headline. Oil tankers are ships.
Can we give them some from SPR? 😳
Lightning bolt? An oil storage location or refinery has literally tons of steel and it is all grounded. Could happed by chance but...
Something was probably left open, a near hit ignited fumes. I’d guess. On the other hand, lightning could split a hose.
— “Could happed by chance but...”
If some old worn out copper ground cable wasn’t properly replaced after it was recycled...
We are talking about Cuba here…
My wife is very upset about this, that’s where she grew up before leaving Cuba.
“Massive Cuban oil tanker fire ... “
Massive Cuban oil storage facility fire ...
Massive journalist blunders happen with or without lightening.
That’s for sure. Journalism is basically dead.
The city of Matanzas was the site where the few remaining native Cuban Indians were cut down in early times.
Matanzas = Slaughter in Spanish.
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