{"id":5107,"date":"2010-06-23T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:42:06","slug":"brazil-floods-1000-missing-39-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/brazil-floods-1000-missing-39-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil floods: 1,000 missing, 39 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floods after days of driving rain have killed at least 39 people in northeastern Brazil, and left 1,000 unaccounted for and another 100,000 people homeless.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"TelegraphPlayer-7845749\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"LT\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"embedCode=VsMnJoMTpcBSpkf3g_49JTpaNvoULpkk&amp;offSite=true&amp;showTD=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/template\/utils\/ooyala\/telegraph_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"TelegraphPlayer-7845749\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedCode=VsMnJoMTpcBSpkf3g_49JTpaNvoULpkk&amp;offSite=true&amp;showTD=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed id=\"TelegraphPlayer-7845749\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/template\/utils\/ooyala\/telegraph_player.swf\" quality=\"high\" name=\"TelegraphPlayer-7845749\" flashvars=\"embedCode=VsMnJoMTpcBSpkf3g_49JTpaNvoULpkk&amp;offSite=true&amp;showTD=true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" scale=\"noscale\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" salign=\"LT\" wmode=\"window\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called a crisis cabinet meeting and said the government would make federal funds available to help the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up until the early afternoon we had 26 confirmed dead in Alagoas and more than 1,000 people missing,&#8221; Teotonio Vilela Filho, the Alagoas Governor, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are praying for the missing to be found alive. But we are very worried because bodies are starting to turn up on beaches and on riverbanks,&#8221; Mr Vilela said.<\/p>\n<p>Civil defence officials in devastated Alagoas state said the Mundau River burst its banks in the town of Uniao dos Palmares, leaving at least 500 people unaccounted for there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pernambuco state&#8217;s rivers all run out through Alagoas. Swollen as they were they devastated cities,&#8221; Mr Vilela said. Thirteen people have been confirmed dead so far in Pernambuco, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The torrents swept away more than 40,000 houses, entire bridges and streets, as well as rail lines in 22 towns across Alagoas, Vilela said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said there were entire towns on the banks of the Mundau in Alagoas that were &#8220;wiped off the map,&#8221; while others were severely damaged or left cut off by floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>The air force so far has sent in five helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/southamerica\/brazil\/7845819\/Brazil-floods-1000-missing-39-dead.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floods after days of driving rain have killed at least 39 people in northeastern Brazil, and left 1,000 unaccounted for and another 100,000 people homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-disasters","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}