Santiago de Cuba: The potential danger for this province posed by the forest fire that originated in the Holguin territory of Pinares de Mayari, was eliminated by the arduous fight that day and night united some 2,000 people from Santiago de Cuba, in the joint strategy drawn up by the defense councils of both regions.
In view of the complexity of the fire, which has affected about 6,000 hectares of forests and pastures in the neighboring territory, the first secretary of the Party in the province of Santiago, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, praised the effective response to the fire which, favored by the drought and strong winds, was constantly moving from one field to another.
Gustavo Álvarez Matos, said that the cooperation with the forces acting on the other side of the Mayarí area, was focused on four difficult to access outbreaks in Altos de Crespo and Poza Rafael, Alturas de Vingindy, and Alturas del Diablo.
The latter came to threaten, the historic site of Piloto del Medio,in San Luis, where the then Commander Raúl Castro Ruz founded the Second Frank País Eastern Front, which will celebrate its 65th anniversary on March 11.
The determination to apply all approved contribution was also followed in Pinalito, municipality of Mella, where the president of the defense zone, Williams Limonta Reynosa, recalled that in the face of the greatest threat, when there was little that water could dodue to the intensity of the fire, it was decided, together with the specialists, to apply the controlled backfire with trails and under strict surveillance.
According to Monteagudo Ruiz, if the commitment of the FAR and the MININT, the firefighters and forest rangers, the workers of the Agriculture system, the mobilized people of each municipality, with the Party and the Government at the head, as well as the Public Health, has been hard and great, the firmness in the contribution to the recovery of the important natural reserve of the countrywill be thesame.
At the end of the day, there are reports of combat in some redoubts of the Holguin territory, hence the close vigilance is maintained day and night by forest rangers, forestry workers and members of the defense zones near the contingency, who would go into actionat the slightest threat.
Translated by ESTI
