26-story building collapses in São Paulo

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A 26-story building located in downtown São Paulo collapsed after being consumed by a fire. The building was abandoned some years ago and was invaded and occupied by several families with no financial conditions, some of them immigrants who came from other countries. Fortunatelly firefighters did a good job and took almost everyone out of the building before it collapsed.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/massive-high-rise-fire-building-collapse-brazil-dead/story?id=54846500

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/playlist/videos-predio-desaba-durante-incendio-em-sao-paulo.ghtml#video-6702630-id

A very sad moment was when this guy was almost being rescued when the building collapsed. People said he managed to get out of the building earlier, but he went back to try to save people on the top floors:

 

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I think it's one of the first buildings to ever collapse in a fire since 9/11. I'm always astonished when this kind of event happens as a building is supposed to resist a fire.

Still, I remember walking by that tower when I was in Sao Paulo and it was the tallest squatter building I've ever seen, it was in pretty bad shape, it's a miracle ''only'' 2 people died in that accident.Very dad moment