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He says that Tuesday night, local residents began to search the hillside which divides Penha from the nearby Alemão neighbourhood for relatives who had been missing since the police raid.

Locals have likened the hillside area - home to about 300,000 people - to a "war zone" since the operation began.

When flames lit up the hillside near Skull Rock on the Temescal Ridge Trail shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, firefighters moved quickly to suppress the blaze.

In recent months, authorities have demolished illegal structures on a beach, and cracked down on construction along rivers and on hillsides.

On their recent expedition at a cattle farm overlooking a picturesque bay, Scmack detected a possum living in a hollow tree on a hillside.