Heavy Rains Push Seven Roraima Municipalities Into Emergency and Cut Off Key Routes

Overview

• Municipal decrees published on Monday raised the number of Roraima cities in official emergency to seven, a step that speeds procurement and allows wider use of public and private assets for response.
• Uiramutã was cut off when the Rio Cambaru bridge was swept away, leaving the town isolated on Saturday and forcing airlifts and water deliveries until a provisional 'wet bridge' route reopened the following day.
• Federal technicians from the Ministry of Integration and Sedec joined state Defense Civil, the fire department and Army engineers to monitor 18 critical points and plan temporary crossings and federal emergency recognition.
• Floods have washed away multiple bridges and roads, isolated indigenous and rural communities, suspended about 70 schools in Normandia affecting roughly 3,500 children, and destroyed subsistence crops that local families rely on.
• Weather services forecast 50–100 millimeters of rain per day and strong winds through early June and signal above‑normal rainfall for June–July, keeping humanitarian needs for potable water, food and medical evacuations high.