On Wednesday, October 18, cities in Paraná, Brazil, experienced significant damage due to a powerful storm that caused widespread destruction. Reports indicated numerous incidents of fallen trees, personal property, and public buildings being heavily damaged. The Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel) reported over 2,300 occurrences related to the storm, highlighting the scale of the impact on the region.

Emergency teams from Copel were deployed across the state to restore service, replace poles, and fix power lines to remedy the outages caused by the storm. The utility company detailed that their teams were addressing specific areas with varying degrees of impact, including 442 service calls in the Central-South region, and significant numbers in the North, Southwest, and Metropolitan regions of Curitiba, among others. The ongoing efforts aim to restore power to all affected customers as promptly as possible.

In Maripá, a town in the western part of Paraná, the storm caused particular devastation, affecting more than 50 homes and damaging public buildings, including a school and a community center. Local authorities are working on assessing the overall damage and providing assistance to those whose lives have been disrupted by this natural disaster, further underscoring the storm's widespread effect on the community and infrastructure in the area.