Step
even further outside the box.
U.S.
open the gateway, the door for volunteer organizations, associations, and others
to provide assistance with no repercussions.
Fire fighting, disaster\emergency management organizations are ready to assist.
Provide the steps for assistance.
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HAVANA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday it sought U.S.
technical assistance in cleaning up after a massive fire at an oil storage
facility that killed 16 fire fighters.
Experts from Cuba and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency met virtually on Wednesday to
discuss the clean-up effort at the Matanzas supertanker port east of Havana
in what the Cuban foreign ministry characterized as a “professional and
fruitful exchange.”
Cuba asked for an assessment of its efforts so far and about
gaining access to innovative U.S. techniques and procedures from the EPA,
other agencies and oil companies, the foreign ministry said.
A lightning strike ignited an oil storage tank at Matanzas
three weeks ago, and the fire spread to three more tanks. It was extinguished
after a week, and the government said it was the worst fire in the Caribbean
island’s history.
The United States considers Communist-run Cuba, just over 100
miles offshore, to be an enemy and has maintained a comprehensive sanctions
regime on it since soon after former leader Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.
At the time of the fire,
the United States offered technical advice by phone.
Reporting by Marc Frank; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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