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Brazil Fire

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Brazil Fire

Brazil Fire

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From the CBC,
"An abandoned highrise building occupied by squatters in downtown Sao Paulo caught fire and collapsed Tuesday, sending chunks of fiery debris crashing into neighbouring buildings and surrounding streets.

Firefighters said at least one person had been killed and there could be more."

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sao-paulo-brazil-fire...

Dik
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RE: Brazil Fire

It took out part of the 19th(?) century church next door. I hope it can be rebuilt.

RE: Brazil Fire

All,

Is/was this a steel framed building or not ?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-439607...

The pictures in the BBC article seem to show just rubble

At twenty six stories, we know that it was not wood framed.

If the steelwork was fireproofed, it should not have collapsed.

Its almost as if when you have the authorities collecting their paychecks but not doing their jobs, disaster results and people die

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_warehou...

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RE: Brazil Fire

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IRS... ya, it is...

Dik

RE: Brazil Fire

^^^ I'm really, really hoping that building does not become an engineering disaster....

RE: Brazil Fire

Being in Brasil, we may never get better information. We have had a few disasters reported there, and the promised reports never seem to materialize.

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