Paraná Fast-Tracks Rebuilding After F3 Tornado as Classes Resume in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu

Overview

• Health officials confirm seven deaths in Paraná and news reports put the regional toll at eight, with at least 835 people treated and 23 still hospitalized, including five in intensive care.
• The state’s environmental agency waived licenses for urgent works for 180 days in municipalities with recognized calamity, covering debris clearing, home reconstruction and essential services under continued oversight.
• The recovery plan includes building 320 new homes within up to 90 days and family repair grants of up to R$50,000, as 139 heavy machines clear streets and the CNM estimates about 1,500 houses were destroyed or damaged.
• State schools began a phased reopening, but the heavily damaged Colégio Estadual Ludovica Safraider remains without a return date, and with 22 of 30 municipal school buses damaged, students reliant on transport are receiving printed or remote study plans.
• Authorities warn of donation scams, with the family of victim Julia Kwapis saying it is not raising funds and the U.S. Embassy urging the public to avoid sending money or personal data to accounts soliciting aid in its name.