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Disaster Relief: Providing shelter, food and water. Two dams burst after weeks of heavy rains and heavy flooding has left at least 18 people dead and more than 280 injured in the northeastern state of Bahia and affected nearly 40 cities throughout the state of Bahia. The Igua dam, on the Verruga River near the city of Vitoria da Conquista in southern Bahia, collapsed on Saturday night, forcing authorities to evacuate residents, mainly in the town of Itambe. There are so many homes under water leaving more than 35,000 people homeless, in the downtown area many residents trapped in their homes had to be rescued.
World Pandemic Support Brazil's Hospitals Need Oxygen
Family members of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 line up with empty oxygen tanks in an attempt to refill them in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil on January 15.
Local and federal officials in Brazil were warned of looming oxygen shortages nearly a week before crisis struck in the city of Manaus, the country's Solicitor General has revealed.
In a country already hard-hit by the coronavirus, oxygen shortages and soaring Covid-19 cases have pushed Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, into a healthcare crisis. Nurses in the city have been quoted in local news reports as saying patients have died of asphyxiation in the city's hospitals because there is no oxygen to give them.
This is a horrible pandemic that's claiming lives of all ages that has yet slowed down. Brazil passed 8 million confirmed cases of of the coronavirus. Brazil's numbers could be higher if more testing is done.
Supporting Firefighters And Reforestation. Firefighters across Brazil are battling raging towers of flames from the Amazon rainforest to the Cerrado savannah, but the fires beneath their feet are a particular challenge in the Pantanal. The fires here are the worst in 15 years. The flames threaten the region’s biodiversity, rich with tapirs, pumas, capybaras and the world’s most dense population of jaguars. Hundreds of firefighters, environmental workers, park rangers and soldiers have worked 24 hours a day for weeks attempting to extinguish flames that have destroyed thousands of square kilometers of the Pantanal. The region is a vast flood plain that normally fills with water during the rainy season, roughly from November to March. But the floods were lower than normal this year and a subsequent drought has left the area dangerously susceptible to fire. It’s our worst year here for fires. It’s never been dry like this. Disaster Relief Donate.
At least 30 people have died during severe rainstorms in Brazil's Minas Gerais state. Many of the victims were buried in landslides or washed away in floods after intense rain on Friday and Saturday. More than 2,500 people were evacuated from their ruined houses under red mud. Disaster Relief support the victims.
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