Brazil fire: São Paulo building collapses in huge blaze
More than 150 firefighters are battling the blaze which is thought to have been caused by a gas explosion.
The high-rise had been occupied by squatters, and firefighters fear more people may have been trapped inside.
Witnesses said flames spread quickly from one of the lower floors and set an adjacent building on fire.
Some 50 families had moved into the building in the Largo do Paissandu area of the city after the federal police force, which had been using it, vacated it some years ago.
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My note: The building consisted of 2 towers!!
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After its construction in 1972, the building was immediately leased to Crefisul Investment Bank. At the beginning of 1974 the company had transferred all of its departments, when on 1 February, at 08h54 on a Friday, a short circuit in an air conditioner on the 13th floor, started a fire, which quickly spread to other floors. The rooms and offices at Joelma were open plan with partitions, wooden furniture, carpeted floors, fabric curtains and synthetic fibre linings, which greatly contributed to the uncontrollable spread of the flames.
Joelma had a single central staircase to serve the two office towers. There were no emergency stairs, fire fighting services or evacuation plans. Many were able to escape through the elevators until they failed causing several deaths, including a group of thirteen people found in one of the elevators who could never be identified and became known as the Thirteen Souls of the Building Joelma. The staircase was quickly engulfed by dense smoke, preventing the occupants from fleeing, who instead of descending, began to rise, hoping to be rescued from the top of the building.
Fire fighters, many of them deprived of basic safety equipment, such as oxygen masks, decided to enter the building for the rescue, trying to reach those who had managed to reach the top of the building. They were only partially successful. The smoke and the flames had already killed dozens of people and some, driven by despair, began to throw themselves from the building. More than 20 people jumped and none survived. Many had already perished due to the high temperatures at the top of the building. Survivors were only rescued from the North Tower and all those on the roof of the South Tower perished.
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The investigation into the causes of the tragedy assigned culpability to Crefisul and Termoclima, the company responsible for electrical maintenance, as the main culprits for the fire. On April 30, 1975. Kiril Petrov, administrative manager of Crefisul, was sentenced to three years in prison. I only mention this as Russian names are not common in Brazil andmay be worthy of further digging.
The story takes an even stranger turn after digging revealed that the area already had a reputation for being haunted and this grew after it was revealed that the site had been the stage for a series a murders that became known as The Crime of the Well.
In 1948, Paulo Ferreira de Camargo, 26, a professor of organic chemistry at USP, lived with his mother Benedita and the sisters Cordelia and Maria Antonieta in a house on the site of the Twin Towers. On November 4, he shot and killed his mother and two sisters and buried their bodies in a well he had built days ago in the backyard. The strange disappearance of the three women made him the main suspect of the triple crime. As police began to dig up the well, Paulo asked to go to the bathroom. He then committed suicide with a shot to the heart, on November 23. At the time, two versions appeared for the crime. The first was that the teacher's family was opposed to his relationship with his girlfriend. The other was that he would have killed his mother and sisters because they were seriously ill and he would not be able to provide the necessary care for treatment. One of the firefighters who participated in the rescue of the bodies died of cadaveric infection when handling the corpses without the protection of gloves. The crime shook the population of São Paulo and became known as The Crime of the Well. Due to its reputation for being haunted, the street numbering was modified when twenty-six years later the Joelma building was built on the site and was subsequently renamed Praça da Bandeira.