The National Secretary for Civil Defense and Protection, Wolnei Wolff, emphasized that the police will use satellite images to help determine the origins of the fires.
The report also shows 90 confirmed deaths as a result of the storms and another four deaths under investigation to establish whether they are related to the recent weather events.
Rio de Janeiro, which has been under alert for days, has already felt the impact of heavy rains over the past two weeks, affecting approximately 100,000 people.
The occupation for housing purposes of areas known as susceptible to floods, landslides, droughts, and other climatic disasters surged by 2.8 times between 1985 and 2022—a period in which 123 thousand hectares of Brazil’s risk regions became occupied.
Highways were blocked following downpours across the midwest of Santa Catarina state. Flooding, slope collapses, and hill slides have been reported.
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