The death toll in the Brumadinho tragedy rises to 121 | New

The national newspaper was accompanying part of this meeting organized by one of the communities affected by Vale's mud. These are mostly rural communities. Many people have lost their homes because of the muddy sea that damaged the structure or because the mud has invaded everything and families can not return to their homes.

Many people have also lost whole plantations. The mud engulfed vast gardens and the workers found themselves without work or income.

The federal public prosecutor, the state prosecutor, advocates and Vale have, in a second stage of this meeting, listened to the residents. For prosecutors and residents, the most urgent is to know what health problems they may have because of mud very close to homes.

Some communities do not have access to drinking water. It is necessary to resolve, according to residents and prosecutors, this issue of housing and also income. Vale hears these requests from the community.

The images recorded by Vale serve as a basis for firefighters to define research sites.

Every day it is the picture in the sky of Brumadinho: today, 15 helicopters flew over. Firefighters have found traces of what would be the miners' cloakroom. Only three bodies were found there.

Near the refectory, the mud is drier. Therefore, the work requires heavy machinery. During the afternoon, a car was removed from there.

Near the place where the dam broke out, the excavations were carried out in at least four points. Only the military search, because it is an area where the mud is deep.

Another strategy announced Saturday to locate the bodies will hear the survivors. Firefighters will try to talk to both men in a van. Their information can help guide the search.

The two officials were in a region registered with security cameras. Vale said it gave the images to the authorities. It is possible to observe the mud invade the entire area. Trees and poles fall in sequence.

The two survivors appear in a very visible image. The mud began to invade the flowerbed. The workers ran. One of them fell. Then he came back and got in a truck. The scene is despair. The wave covered the entire plot, reaching the truck and a backhoe, where there was also a person. Almost miraculously, the three workers survived.

On another camera, you can see the exact moment when the dam collapsed. Firefighters badyzed the images and said that they would be used to try to locate missing persons.

"So basically, here we can identify the structure of the dams, it's very important that people measure the impact of the people and buildings that were there, and that helps us to see where, probably, where they are. were launched, "says Pedro Aihara, of the fire department.

The anguish of finding the missing brother and cousin takes Vanderlei to the scene of the disaster every day. He looks for traces in the area where the mud has dried. "It's a pain for the family because my dad, my mother … he has my brother's wife, my son, who was too caught up by my brother, can not cry at home," said Vanderlei Paulo Caetano.

A pain that also works for those who seek. In addition to nearly 300 firefighters, a thousand military police help to sweep. After so many days in this immensity of mud, uncertainty and loss, it's really hard to hold back the emotion.