{"id":7755,"date":"2024-05-07T04:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2024-05-07T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:49:05","slug":"brazil-floods-death-toll-nears-90-as-rescue-efforts-continue-amid-skyscrapers-of-porto-alegre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7755","title":{"rendered":"Brazil floods death toll nears 90 as rescue efforts continue amid skyscrapers of Porto Alegre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Porto Alegre<\/em> \u2014 From top to bottom, rescuers have been scouring buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in apartments or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding<\/span> turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. In the state capital’s Sarandi neighborhood, firefighters first evacuated people who had found refuge on the roofs of apartment buildings, then went in for those on the higher floors inside.<\/p>\n

“Now, we are evacuating those on the second and third floors,” Daniel Batista da Rocha, a fire fighter from the flood-battered southern state of Rio Grande do Sul told AFP mid-search on Sunday. But the task is complex in a city with many tall buildings, wide avenues, and some 1.4 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n

“There is a lot of water… it is deep. The (rescue) boats are travelling at the same height as the power cables. So, to navigate, we must cut the cables,” said Rocha, dressed in a wetsuit, life vest and yellow helmet.<\/p>\n

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A drone view shows the flooded city center of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 5, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The floods had killed at least 83 people in the state by early Monday morning, according to the civil defense agency, with dozens more missing and some 115,000 forced to leave their homes.<\/p>\n