Firefighters search for man who disappeared after shipwreck on the Purus River, in Acre An operation by the Acre Military Fire Department (CBM-AC) has been searching for a man identified as Francisco Pessoa Alves since Sunday morning (19). He disappeared after the sinking of a bajola, a small wooden vessel, in the Purus River, in Santa Rosa do Purus, in the interior of Acre, on Saturday night (18). ? Join the g1 AC channel on WhatsApp According to the firefighters, the victim and two other friends were sailing through the spring when they suffered the accident. The other two occupants of the vessel managed to escape, but did not find Alves. Firefighters search for Francisco Pessoa Alves on the Purus River, in the interior of Acre Fire Department A team of divers from the Nautical Platoon was called and, with support from the Integrated Air Operations Center (Ciopaer), began the search. The operation continues and, as of Monday night (20), the man had still not been found. "To date, around 80 minutes of underwater searches have been carried out, scanning an area of ??approximately 500 meters, in addition to the beginning of surface searches in an area of ??approximately 10 km", informed the corporation. Review Acre’s news programs