3rd Oil Storage Tank Collapses in Cuba Terminal Following Fire, Spill: Governor

3rd Oil Storage Tank Collapses in Cuba Terminal Following Fire, Spill: Governor
Fire over fuel storage tanks that exploded near Cuba's supertanker port in Matanzas, Cuba, on Aug. 7, 2022. Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
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HAVANA—A third crude tank caught fire and collapsed at Cuba’s main oil terminal Matanzas, a local governor said on Monday, as an oil spill spread flames from a second tank that caught fire two days earlier in the island’s biggest oil industry accident in decades.

Cuba had made progress fighting off the raging flames during the weekend after drawing on help from Mexico and Venezuela, but late on Sunday the fire began spreading from the second tank, which collapsed, said Mario Sabines, governor of the Matanzas Province, about 60 miles from Havana.