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Community leader Edir Silva and others removed a 200-year-old statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel out of their local chapel Sept. 7, as a wildfire threatened to engulf the village of Forte Coimbra, a district of the city of Corumbá. "As soon as we begged for her help, the winds began to blow in another direction and the fire went away," Silva told EarthBeat. (Courtesy of Edir Silva)
Community leader Edir Silva and others removed a 200-year-old statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel out of their local chapel Sept. 7, as a wildfire threatened to engulf the village of Forte Coimbra. (Courtesy of Edir Silva)