His body collapsed under the tree trunk. The crash foreshadowed doom: Francisco Araújo Maciel, 45, thought he was dying. He didn’t see it coming and he doesn’t remember exactly how it happened. On the morning of April 24, a large piece of the tree he was sawing tore at his collarbone as it fell on him. This set off an ordeal lasting more than seven hours, stretching from the heart of the forest to the nearest hospital in the remote southern Brazilian state of Amazonas.
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