Mop-Up Work Stalls Inspections at Rio’s Shopping Tijuca After Deadly Fire

Overview

• Civil Defense and police have not begun their assessments because firefighters remain on site conducting overhaul and ventilation.
• Officials report all flames are out, but heavy smoke lingers in the sublevel where the fire started.
• Two shopping employees died — brigade supervisor Anderson Aguiar do Prado and brigadista Emellyn Silva Aguiar Menezes — and three others were reported injured.
• Roughly 50 firefighters broke through walls to install exhaust systems, and the mall has no timeline for reopening.
• A stretch of Avenida Maracanã and Rua Engenheiro Enaldo Cravo Peixoto remains closed, and nearby residents said smoke entered their buildings.