Firefighters Resume Search for Woman Swept Away in São Paulo Flash Flood

Overview

• Maria Deusdete da Mata Ribeiro, 67, remains missing after the couple’s car was carried off by a sudden torrent on Avenida Carlos Caldeira Filho in the South Zone.
• The body of her husband, Marcos da Mata Ribeiro, 68, was found around 9 a.m. on Saturday near Parque Burle Marx, roughly one kilometer from where the pair were last seen, and was identified by family.
• Firefighters restarted operations at 6:30 a.m. Sunday with three teams conducting shoreline searches, aquatic patrols and drone scans.
• Crews are combing river margins from Ponte Laguna, tracing drainage galleries and surveying a branch toward the Guarapiranga region near where Marcos was located.
• Video sent to TV Globo shows the white car nearly submerged as bystanders called for help, during a storm that triggered a flood alert and city reports of multiple collapses and fallen trees.