A team of specialists is here to complement the colleagues who are at the site of the fire, said Alejandro Valdez, an expert from Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) who arrived today in this city along with eight other experienced personnel.

New aid cargo arrived in the province of Matanzas from Mexico and Venezuela as part of a contribution in solidarity to cope with the large fire currently blazing in the province’s Supertanker Base.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla thanked the expressions of solidarity and messages of support sent by Cubans living abroad in view of the fire that began Friday at the Matanzas Supertank Base.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez praised the efforts of the firefighters, first responders and workers engaged in the struggle to quell the blaze in the industrial zone of this city in highly dangerous conditions.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met with the chiefs of the aid teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela to help put out the fire at the Matanzas supertanker base and thanked their governments, particularly their presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Nicolás Maduro.

Luis Wong Corrales, provincial director of Health in Matanzas province, informed at a press conference that 85 patients affected by last Friday's fire in this city have been discharged from the hospital, out of the 121 treated so far.

Conviasa flight A 340 arrived Saturday night in this city with solidarity aid sent by the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to fight the large-scale fire, still uncontrolled, at the supertanker base.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez expressed deep gratitude to the governments of Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Nicaragua, Argentina and Chile, which have promptly offered material solidarity aid to Cuba in the face of the fire taking place in the western province of Matanzas.

Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, Cuba's deputy foreign minister, thanked the expressions of help from organizations and individuals from the United States, and the offer of technical advice from the government to confront the fire in the city of Matanzas.

As of 10 a.m. this Saturday, August 6, local time, 17 firefighters are reported missing and 67 people injured in a major oil tank fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, 90 kilometers east of Havana.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez congratulated the people and government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the 197th anniversary of its independence.

 The population living in the industrial zone was evacuated as a guarantee of well-being in the face of the fire being fought at the Supertanker Base in this city.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel visited this Saturday the Faustino Pérez Hospital in Matanzas, where he took an interest in the state of health and care provided to the people affected by the major fire that occurred in the industrial zone of that city.

Cuba prioritizes the development of health tourism based on high quality of life and well being.

Cuban firefighters are trying to control a large fire occurred in a fuel tank at an oil supertankers depot in Western Matanzas province.