They create conditions for heavy machinery to operate in Guiteras (+Video)

Conditions are created in the workplace for the operation of the heavy machinery that will arrive from Havana to the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) to contribute to the search for the worker who remains trapped following the collapse that occurred in the chimney area last Friday .

Lieutenant Colonel Williams González Hernández, head of the Civil Defense of the Matanzas Military Region, confirmed to the Cuban News Agency that while waiting for the mechanized equipment, the factory personnel, rescuers and firefighters ensure the operation scene of the equipment.

Around 6:00 in the morning today, the decision was made -because there is a lot of debris and danger to the personnel who were in the rescue work-, to carry out another group of actions, open three manholes and clean the area, explained.

A hammer crane will arrive that will allow the walls of the tower to be drilled and three holes will be opened, one in the same area where the rubble has already been carried out, another on one side that will give more access to the place, and a third through a metal conduit. the accesses will allow greater clarity and ease of work, he argued.

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The country is depending on the situation – González Hernández said -, the heavy equipment that comes by road is already sent from Havana, it is divided into two parts, it must not go through the bridges, it is a route that requires insurance from Transit, Patrol.

He assured that attention is offered to the families of the injured; Political and governmental authorities, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the Ministry of Energy and Mines, were present at the site, and Division General Ramón Pardo Guerra, head of the National Civil Defense Staff, also attended to inquire regarding the action.

The maximum responsibility of us is that the rescuers and the personnel of the company work with the security measures of Civil Defense so that an accident does not occur within what we already have, the areas of greatest danger are delimited where everyone must be, there is a cordon and security system as established by the protocol, he specified.

After the collapse of a partition in the area called the ashtray inside the CTE Guiteras chimney, at approximately 2:30 in the followingnoon last Friday, four workers were trapped, so far two were rescued alive and one deceased; All of Cuba stands in solidarity with Matanzas.

Taken from ACN