diff --git a/cmd/eth1indexer/main.go b/cmd/eth1indexer/main.go
index 1d886b7911..0c26dd36c1 100644
--- a/cmd/eth1indexer/main.go
+++ b/cmd/eth1indexer/main.go
@@ -515,6 +515,19 @@ func HandleChainReorgs(bt *db.Bigtable, client *rpc.ErigonClient, depth int) err
 		if !bytes.Equal(nodeBlock.Hash().Bytes(), dbBlock.Hash) {
 			logrus.Warnf("found incosistency at height %v, node block hash: %x, db block hash: %x", i, nodeBlock.Hash().Bytes(), dbBlock.Hash)
 
+			// first we set the cached marker of the last block in the blocks/data table to the block prior to the forked one
+			if i > 0 {
+				previousBlock := i - 1
+				err := bt.SetLastBlockInBlocksTable(int64(previousBlock))
+				if err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("error setting last block [%v] in blocks table: %w", previousBlock, err)
+				}
+				err = bt.SetLastBlockInDataTable(int64(previousBlock))
+				if err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("error setting last block [%v] in data table: %w", previousBlock, err)
+				}
+				// now we can proceed to delete all blocks including and after the forked block
+			}
 			// delete all blocks starting from the fork block up to the latest block in the db
 			for j := i; j <= latestNodeBlockNumber; j++ {
 				dbBlock, err := bt.GetBlockFromBlocksTable(j)
@@ -525,6 +538,7 @@ func HandleChainReorgs(bt *db.Bigtable, client *rpc.ErigonClient, depth int) err
 					return err
 				}
 				logrus.Infof("deleting block at height %v with hash %x", dbBlock.Number, dbBlock.Hash)
+
 				err = bt.DeleteBlock(dbBlock.Number, dbBlock.Hash)
 				if err != nil {
 					return err
diff --git a/services/monitoring.go b/services/monitoring.go
index 5aa763a4b3..b678a0034e 100644
--- a/services/monitoring.go
+++ b/services/monitoring.go
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ func startElDataMonitoringService() {
 		}
 		blockBlocksTable, err := db.BigtableClient.GetBlockFromBlocksTable(uint64(numberBlocksTable))
 		if err != nil {
-			errorMsg := fmt.Errorf("error: could not retrieve latest block from the blocks table: %v", err)
+			errorMsg := fmt.Errorf("error: could not retrieve latest block (%d) from the blocks table: %v", numberBlocksTable, err)
 			ReportStatus(name, errorMsg.Error(), nil)
 			continue
 		}