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"I heard a crash and everything went black, the noise was inexplicable, it seemed to me that I was in hell." Five days after the dam broke in Brumadinho, Luiz Sávio Lopes of Castro, 60, can not sleep, despite the remedies he takes for this purpose, and has difficulty telling the horror scenes he experienced last Friday, Monday. He is one of the survivors of the tsunami mud caused by the breaking of the bean mine. "From my clbad we were at 59. They left at 22. The rest are dead or missing," he says shortly after meeting the brother of one of his colleagues missing. "Pedro, his brother, always came home, now we have no idea where he is."
Castro is a medium-sized man, born in Jequeri (MG) and living with his wife and children in Brumadinho. Staff member of Reframax Engenharia, a company operating on the scene of the tragedy, which has 59 employees, he would finish a year of residence next month as a shipowner. But the first anniversary of this work should not take place anymore. "I do not know if I want to go back to work," he says. "
While trying to contain the rift, he says that shortly before the dam, he returned from lunch in the cafeteria, a hotspot of the tragedy because of the place and the time when he When he arrived at the building where he was working, he decided to help a friend replace a light bulb. "I had finished my stuff and decided to go upstairs for help a colleague, "he describes." It was at that point that I heard the crash. At the time, I was just thinking about running in the woods. I have run so much that I have lost my mind. "He says that the sound of the mud coming down was the only thing audible, and you can not compare the noise with another noise, and he guarantees that he did not hear any sirens alert to tragedy." If someone says that an alarm sounds, it's a lie. "
After crossing the bush until crossing a path where the mud did not reach as much his Castro was saved and, already awake, the first thing he wanted to do was to call his wife, Ivaneth Lopes de Castro, 49, and tell him that he was okay. " I talked to her and she started crying because she thought I was saying she was fine just to rebadure her, "she said." But I was fine. He was alive. "The four children and three grandchildren also stayed in the owner's head after regaining consciousness." I thought about them a lot. What would it be if I died? "
Wearing a helmet and goggles, the owner wore a small mark on the face, because of collision with a stone.Other than that, swelling of the foot and the uniform, thrown to the trash by the amount of mud, were the visible signs of the consequence of what he was living in. But the invisible ones will be more difficult to solve. "I have never had to take medication to sleep. And now I drink, "he says. "Yet, I wake up every day screaming, scared."
In memory of Castro, the screams of clbadmates that he had heard while he was running. "They shouted:" I'm going to die! I'm going to die! "He recalls. "Can you imagine seeing your colleagues leave without being able to do anything?" He asks, his eyes watering. "In the middle of the fifth day of research, the owner says that he has no hope of finding anyone alive." Three of my colleagues "I heard that there were 391 people in the Department of Civil Defense and that 57 of them had been identified by the Medical Institute
Without the routine of work and still unanswered about his future, Castro sought to discuss with the families of the victims, in a community center in Val Brumadinho "I'm not well, but there are people who are less well Lotis than me. "Sitting in one of the green water armchairs – the color of the miner's logo – he kept remembering scenes that I had witnessed." The steel "It's twisted like a wet suit," he said, squeezing his fingers against the palms of his hands and writhing. "The pieces of steel torn like paper," he says, crying. 19659003] Still a little surprised, he thinks he survived "for Jesus." He asked how grateful he was for the care he received the emergency care unit of Sarzedo, a municipality located 20 km from Brumadinho. And now he has the intention to pray. "God will help me, but forget what I lived, I will never come back."
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