BRAZIL’S LARGEST RESCUE FORCE
A dense reddish brown layer causes a wound in the heart of the town, making a huge trail of destruction. Seeing through the Squirrel windshield, the air view of the small Brumadinho, in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte is distressing. The unlikely has repeated it; again a dam of the world’s largest mining company has collapsed. This time, with hundreds of victims - over 300 human lives are expected to be lost, in addition to the huge environmental damage, mainly in the region’s rivers.
Overflying continues. At the horizon, there is a dam of tailings. It is the place where formerly Vale’s central operation offices worked. To the south, there is a vast wake of mud. The scene looks like a small village hit by lava broadly expelled by an erupting volcano. Far ahead, the helicopter is over what seems to be a railway region. A train composition is
