One person is missing and more than a hundred have already been rescued this Wednesday (31) from the sea at Praia de , the stage for the big New Year’s Eve party in Rio de Janeiro. . At the end of the morning, firefighters were searching for a person who disappeared at sea, near Station 2. During the searches, firefighters rescued many other people who were swept away by the sea: until 3:50 pm, there were more than a hundred rescues in Copacabana alone.
In the afternoon, a drowning man in Ipanema was rescued with the support of a helicopter and taken to Miguel Couto Hospital in serious condition.
. The warning was transmitted by the State Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alert Center (Cemaden-RJ) directly to all cell phones. The advice is that no one enters the sea. The waves came close to one of the stages set up for Copacabana’s New Year’s Eve shows. The Navy also issued a surf warning for the region, with waves of up to 2.5 meters expected until Thursday morning, the 1st.
The capital’s beaches are crowded from early in the morning due to New Year’s Eve celebrations. According to firefighters, anyone going to spend the end of the year in Rio should be careful with the sea. Lieutenant Colonel Fábio Contreiras, from the Rio Fire Department (CBMERJ), said that alerts will be made by the corporation’s drones to guide people, especially those in Copacabana.
“The sea will not be suitable for diving. We have waves of up to 2.5 meters, a sea with a lot of energy, a sea also with many ditches and rip currents”, warned Contreiras.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
