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Smoke billows from a fire raging through warehouses of a samba school, where floats, costumes and props of the Rio Carnival are made and kept, in Samba City, Rio de Janeiro February 7, 2011
Tuesday, Feb. 08, 2011

Open quoteThe fire burned everything, but it didn't burn our Carnaval spirit.Close quote

  • HELIO DE OLIVEIRA,
  • president of Acadêmicos do Grande Rio, one of three Rio de Janeiro samba schools whose hopes of competing in the city's annual Carnaval parade were dimmed by a warehouse fire that destroyed thousands of floats and costumes
Photo: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes | Source: NYT