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The collapse of a house caused by the rain left six people from the same family buried last night in Embu das Artes, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. According to the Fire Department, four victims have already been pulled lifeless from the rubble and searches of the site continue for the other two missing.
The firefighters were called yesterday around 9:30 p.m. for the collapse in the neighborhood Gardening school, which is near the Rodoanel Mário Covas, after a heavy rain that hit the capital and Greater São Paulo. At 7 pm, the corporation reported that it had already received seven calls for landslides and landslides, in addition to 28 reports of falling trees and another 53 floods and floods.
The Embu das Artes tragedy was caused by the collapse of a house that affected three other nearby houses. This morning, the Fire Department was left with a team of almost 50 professionals dedicated to searches.
According to Colonel Jefferson De Mello, commander of the São Paulo Fire Department, the four dead would be the mother and three children: a baby, a five-year-old boy and a seven-year-old boy.
“According to information from the community, information about the relative who would be the father, he still has his mother-in-law, who would be the grandmother, and another baby of one year and five months,” said the colonel in an interview with TV Globo about the two victims. . buried.
De Mello said the place is still dangerous, with “a lot of water and a lot of falling dirt,” but that teams are working in the hope of finding the two missing victims alive.
“I spoke personally with the father, I explained to him all our work and unfortunately I passed the news. It is a festive period, it is difficult, we would like to give other news, but it is our job,” said the colonel about the conversation with the father of the family. , who was not in the house at the time of the collapse.
According to TV Globo, a man died yesterday from the rain in Embu. He was swept up into a sewer in the Jardim Santa Tereza neighborhood and was eventually rescued to a nearby hospital, but he did not resist.
