Helicopter rescuer saves two men from submerged car during horror floods

The occurrence section rescuers battled hazardous conditions to prevention the 2 men from floodwaters arsenic their car was astir wholly submerged portion they travelled crossed a bridge

This is the infinitesimal rescuers successful a chopper managed to prevention 2 men from the extortion of a car that was astir wholly submerged by floodwaters on a bridge.

The incidental took spot successful the Sao Joao River, betwixt Garuva, successful the authorities of Santa Catarina, and Guaratuba, successful the authorities of Parana, in Brazil, astatine astir 1:30pm connected November 16. According to the Fire Department, the conveyance was astir wholly submerged by the floodwaters portion crossing the span connected the borderline betwixt the 2 states.

The conveyance was reportedly near dangling disconnected the submerged span and the men climbed connected the extortion of the car. The footage shows however the rescue chopper approaches the conveyance and winches a rescuer down to their presumption with a handbasket earlier airlifting them to information and putting them down successful a adjacent field.

Teams from the 7th Firefighters Battalion had besides positioned themselves on the stream to supply enactment if needed. Local media reports said that nary 1 was injured during the incident.

Medical professionals examined the 2 victims, who person not been identified, and they were past escaped to spell home. Brazil has been blighted by flooding this twelvemonth with tens of thousands being displaced.

In May, astatine slightest 85 radical died successful floods with 150,000 being displaced from their homes. Heavy rains sparked flooding successful the authorities of Rio Grande bash Sul earlier this year.

The floods sparked landslides, washed-out roads and collapsed bridges, leaving a aftermath of devastation crossed the state, Operators reported energy cuts with immoderate 800,000 radical being near without a h2o supply, according to the civilian defence agency.

"I repetition and insist: the devastation to which we are being subjected is unprecedented," State Gov. Eduardo Leite said astatine the time. He had antecedently said that the authorities volition request a "kind of 'Marshall Plan' to beryllium rebuilt."