The presenter was scared and explained that her employees were near the crash site shortly before the incident.
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January 8, 2024 10:05 p.m
(updated on September 1st, 2024 at 4:10 p.m.)
Summary
Ana Maria Braga reported a dangerous situation in her home due to heavy rains in São Paulo and called on the Pinheiros city council to prune the trees.
Ana Maria Braga shows damage to her villa after rain and complains about the town hall:
The speaker Ana Maria Braga released a video in which she expressed outrage at the dangerous situation in her home Heavy rain this Monday, the 8th, in Sao Paulo. She showed a branch of a tree that fell minutes earlier at a spot near where her staff had been, breaking a glass. “It's absurd. I'm asking for help here“, he said.
“The girls took down the tree here at the house. Yes, but like that, everything is here. And then it was like this, for five minutes, not five minutes. They were here, they were walking, and this branch fell here, and then it broke there,” he pointed.
“I wanted to know why when we call people and come here, from the city council, from the inspectors, for God's sake, they don't look at this and say, 'Hey, there's more things going to fall on the tree.' . from Natal,” explained Ana Maria.
She explained that she usually calls the Pinheiros subprefecture, the neighborhood where she lives, to have the trees trimmed. But the moderator was not satisfied with the cuts by the town hall.
“I have a house with lots of trees. And I take care of it, there is a gardener who comes here, who takes care of it, who prune what can be pruned and so on. And then I shout: sometimes I tried, we have to make a request and do everything to be able to prune it,” he explained.
O Earth sent a request to the Pinheiros Subprefecture and the Civil Defense of São Paulo requesting comments on the applicant's complaint. On the morning of Tuesday 9th, the municipality published a clarification note stating that Ana Maria Braga was responsible for the cut.
Rain in São Paulo
This Monday alone, according to the fire department, there were around 200 calls for falling trees in the capital and metropolitan region by around 6 p.m., most of them in the southern zone, in the districts of Moema, Itaim Bibi, Bela Vista and Vila Mariana, Jardim Paulista, Vila Maria and Pinheiros.
At around 4 p.m., storms and winds caused a metal structure on a marquee in Ibirapuera Park to collapse. Four people were injured in the incident.
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