Tatuapé Blast at Illegal Fireworks Depot Kills 1, Injures 10

Overview

• Police say the residence stored pyrotechnics illegally; a carbonized body believed to be resident Adir de Oliveira Mariano, 46, awaits IML DNA confirmation, and he had prior citations related to balões.
• A formal inquiry was opened for explosion, environmental crime linked to balloon activity, and bodily injury, with investigators tracing the source of the materials and potential accomplices.
• Civil defense initially interdicted more than 20 properties and, by Friday night, 11 remained closed, leaving families out of their homes while engineers assess structural safety.
• The explosion destroyed the house, damaged vehicles and neighboring buildings across multiple blocks, and occurred near fuel stations as firefighters, police, and SAMU contained fires and searched the rubble.
• Forensics collected remnants of fireworks associated with balões, and authorities are examining whether mishandling inside the property or a falling balloon ignited the stockpile.