Another tobacco building fire in Cuba

[Ryan]

After the fire near Havana last February, another one this time in San Juan y Martinez, Pinar del Rio.

An area obviously known to many for some of the best export leaf.

https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2022-05-29-u199894-e199894-s27061-incendio-consume-casa-escogida-tabaco-pinar-rio

Details are scant in that article but I saw somewhere else a number of 30 tons of tobacco.

30 tons of tobacco could be up to 2 million large cigars.

No reason given for the fire, but this being the second one this year in an escogido, it's possible that human error is creeping in with fewer trained staff working in the buildings. Piles of fermenting tobacco can self-combust, likes bales of silage, if the interior gets too hot during fermentation. 

Usually, very long temperature probes are shoved into the middle of the pile and if it is getting too hot, it gets broken down and rebuilt with the interior leave going to the exterior etc. If I was to guess, I'd guess that this operation is being neglected.

 

Edit. Some more details here.

https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1653822333_39827.html

[Salomones]

Someone wrote me, most of them are Wrappers. 

[El Presidente]

Cheers Andy. 

That's ugly news.  I was told by a solid source that they under reported the losses of the last fire. 

 

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Retroactive justifications for price hikes… 

[houdini]

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Fire-Causes-Loss-of-30-Tons-of-Fine-Quality-Cuban-Tobacco-20220529-0017.html

[Hoepssa]

More excuses for the price rising on 2023