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Manaus: A huge fire blazed through 600 wooden homes built on stilts next to a river in Brazil’s Amazon region overnight, decimating a poor area of the city of Manaus but causing no deaths, authorities said Tuesday.
“It’s perhaps the biggest city fire in the history of Manaus,” said the deputy chief of the local emergency service, Hermogenes Rabelo. The inferno started late Monday and was only brought under control shortly after midnight after a three-hour struggle by more than 100 firefighters, the security secretariat for Amazonas state said.Four people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
The fire happened in Educandos, an impoverished and densely populated district near the center of Manaus that sits on the Rio Negro, a river that joins up with the Amazon River to flow out to the Atlantic. Hundreds of people ran out of their homes in panic, grabbing what they could, a photographer said. (AFP)
“It’s perhaps the biggest city fire in the history of Manaus,” said the deputy chief of the local emergency service, Hermogenes Rabelo. The inferno started late Monday and was only brought under control shortly after midnight after a three-hour struggle by more than 100 firefighters, the security secretariat for Amazonas state said.Four people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
The fire happened in Educandos, an impoverished and densely populated district near the center of Manaus that sits on the Rio Negro, a river that joins up with the Amazon River to flow out to the Atlantic. Hundreds of people ran out of their homes in panic, grabbing what they could, a photographer said. (AFP)
