Some 18 recreational houses on the popular Cunagua beach, in the municipality of Bolivia, were reduced to ashes after a raging fire spread on Sunday through these buildings made of wood and palm roofs.

Bolivia government authorities told Invasor that the fire would have been caused by residents of the place who were cooking a soup in a wood stove, and from there the fire spread rapidly through almost twenty of the more than 800 recreational houses built in that coastline of the north coast of Ciego de Ávila.

Users of the social network Facebook reported the incident and attributed the causes to negligence. Combined forces of the Fire Departments in Morón, Bolivia and Primero de Enero, plus the population, managed to extinguish the flames and that the damage was not greater, nor was there loss of human life.

“It is painful to see this damage,” Aidy Jiménez said. "A thousand thanks to everyone who in one way or another helped us control it, to those firefighters and to Juancito, our tanker driver from Brisas Bolivia, who was always present supporting us while reinforcements from Morón and Primero de Enero arrived," Daimarys Fernández alleged on Facebook.

Other Facebook users commented that a similar fire occurred in the 1980s.

In addition to the material with which these buildings are made, another factor that determines the advance of the flames is the proximity of one house to the other, something that has been characteristic of the spa.