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The flames spread to other buildings, including two residences and a school
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A woman and three of her children died this thursday in a large-scale fire in a chemical plant in the Brazilian city of Barueri, in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, which also left at least other eight injured people, according to official sources.
The flames started at an industrial chemical plant and reached nine other buildings, including a plastics company, two residences and a school. “The flammable liquid descended through the galleries and reached a house and caused a beginning of fire in a school, which did not catch fire and was isolated,” said the commander of the Fire Department, Jefferson de Mello, quoted in a statement.
According to the Barueri mayor’s office, the four fatalities – a woman and three of her four children, between four years and eleven months old – worked and lived inside one of the plants that caught fire and died charred.
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As for the wounded, two of the victims were admitted to a hospital in the region in a serious state after suffering burns on 80% of their bodies. The other six suffered minor injuries, from smoke poisoning or minor burns, and are still under medical supervision.
About a hundred firefighters and 28 vehicles, as well as Civil Defense, rescue and relief teams, went to the emergency room and managed to control the flames, although they will continue working to leave the area “in total safety.”
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