Around a hundred linemen from Ciego de Ávila do not cease in their efforts to restore the electrical service to the residents of the municipality of San Luis, in the province of Pinar del Río, one of the most affected by the passage of the meteor.

Kaled Cruz Cobo, technical director of the Electric Company of Ciego de Ávila and one of those who lead the contingent, told Invasor that 70 linemen from his entity are working on the recovery, in addition to four brigades from the Electrical Industry Construction Company (ECIE) of the territory of Ciego de Ávila that add up to around thirty.

“The municipality has two 33 kilovolts (kV) circuits, one of them already restored and the other is working with a date to get it ready this Friday. It also has 12 primary circuits, two of them fully restored and three more are being worked on as a sequence,” Cruz Cobo added.

Figures that translate into 3,853 customers having electricity in San Luis, equivalent to 34.08 of the total.

Even in the difficult conditions faced by workers in the sector after the hurricane passed through the area, they often carry out work that exceeds 12 hours a day.

The technical director of the Electrical Company in that region narrates that the working day begins at 6:30 in the morning with the trip 30 kilometers from San Luis by bus to be at eight before meridian everyone on the ground, until 6:30 in the afternoon, to again travel to the resting places.

However, "almost every day a group stays up later to restore transformer banks or circuit sections worked on during the day."“The works are strong, there are around 1,250 broken posts, a similar number of turned or on the ground; the critical path is in the crane with auger to be able to restore totally destroyed or highly entangled primary and secondary circuits. You have to touch each structure with your hands, which prevents us from further progress.“The technical team has been perfect with the pole-to-pole cloudscape. We visit the heads of work groups on the ground with part of the production, later we hold a videoconference to inform the country and then the next day's work is prepared with the dispatch of materials to take advantage of the day," said the manager.

As reported this Thursday by the engineer Lázaro Guerra Hernández, technical director of the Electric Union, in the Buenos Días magazine, 139 brigades of linemen from different provinces participate in the recovery of the electrical infrastructure in Pinar del Río, and the restoration of the service reaches the 62 percent of customers.