FLORIANOPOLIS, Santa Catarina – The pregnant woman who fell from the 10th floor of a highrise apartment building in the capital last week while cleaning windows gave an interview to TV-RBS last Friday, reported the newspaper Diário Catarinense. The young woman, who says she has no memory of the accident, believes her survival was a miracle that she wants to share.
Daiane Marciel (photo: Diario Catarinense)
Daiane Maciel, the maid who survived the ten-story fall from a building in downtown Florianopolis on 27 October, spoke to the press on Friday for the first time since being discharged from the hospital. In an interview with TV-RBS News, eight days after the incident, she said she does not remember the how the accident happened.
In the interview the woman, who is two months pregnant, told the TV reporter that the last thing she remembers is being at work engaged in her normal activities in the service area of the apartment. “I don't remember much, but I believe it was a miracle. There is no other explanation,” she said.
The family that lives in the apartment thinks that Daiane lost consciousness because of the pregnancy which, according to her employer, has happened before.
In the late afternoon of 27 October, Daiane fell through the window of her employer's apartment, on the 10th floor of the highrise apartment building Boulevard Saint Michel on Esteves Junior Street, in downtown Florianopolis. A tree broke her fall, which experts say could have reached a speed of more than 62 mph.
Painter Ariovaldo Jorge Amorim, who was working on the ground floor of the building, heard a noise and found the girl amongst fallen branches. She was conscious and was rescued by the Emergency Service which took her to the Hospital Celso Ramos.
Last Thursday, Daiane was discharged from the hospital and returned to her home in Canto da Lagoa on the east end of the island. Daiane was the second young woman in as many months to have survived a fall from 10 floors or more.
On 29 September, Muniki Dias Goulart, 25, leaped from her 12th floor apartment in Goiania to escape a fire. Muniki's husband jumped before her and died instantly when he hit the ground. Muniki hit an awning on the way down and, after spending a month in hospital, was released and is expected to make a full recovery. Muniki also believes that her survival was a miracle.
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