a fire consumed the interior of the National Museum of Brazil, a historical Museum for 200 years, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, September 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Rio DE JANEIRO (AP) – A huge fire swept Sunday the National Museum in 200 years, in Rio de Janeiro, with flames that lit up the night as firefighters and workers of the Museum tried to rescue some relics of the prestigious fuegoEl Museum, which houses Egyptian artifacts, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil, was closed to the public at the time that originated the fire, which started at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, reported in a statement. No injuries were reported, said the Museum, and time is not known how the fire started. “Around 80 firefighters to fight the flames and at midnight he was” about to be controlled”and it must become extinct in a matter of a few hours”, said the spokesman for the Fire Department, Roberto Robadey.v class = “ck-related-news” > the President Michel tea MER said that it was “a sad day for all Brazilians”.
“Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge have been lost,” said fear in a statement.
According to its website, the Museum has more than 20,000 artifacts related to the history of Brazil and other countries. Many of the collections belonged to the family Brasil.Robadey Royal said that firefighters had problems at the beginning since the two hydrants closest to the Museum were not working. Instead, they had to send trucks to collect water from a nearby Lake.
Firefighters are trying to extinguish flames at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro Sunday, September 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
However, he added that it could rescue some of the pieces in the Museum.
“We could remove much of the interior with the help of the employees of the Museum,” Robadey told Globo News.
Related to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Museum has exhibitions which include anthropology, archaeology and Paleontology, among other things. The Deputy Director of the Museum, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, told Globo news that the Museum was suffering from a chronic lack of funds. “Everyone wants to support now. We never had enough support”, he said. The Latin America’s largest nation has struggled to recover from its worst recession in decades. The State of Rio de Janeiro has been particularly affected in recent years thanks to the combination of the fall in the price of oil, one of its main sources of income, poor efforts and enormous corruption.
Firefighters battling the flames when a fire consumed the interior of the National Museum of Brazil, a historical Museum for 200 years, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, September 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Little more than one month of national elections, and even before the flames were extinguished, the fire caused complaints about poor infrastructure and budget deficits in the city which hosted the Olympic Games in 2016.
“Unfortunately, due to the problems financial in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and other public universities over the past three years, this was a tragedy that was to come”, Marina Silva, one of the main candidates Tweet Presidential.
Through a publication on Instagram, the Mayor of Río Marcelo Crivella called a reconstruction of the country.” It is a national obligation to rebuild from the ashes, recover each eternal detail of paintings and photographs. “Even if they are not original, will remain a reminder of the Royal family which gave us our independence from the Empire (Portuguese) and the first Constitution and national unity”, said. In this note: Brazil Rio de Janeiro Museum National relics fire
