Firefighters dug for survivors saturday but only found corpses under red earth and crushed lodgings in Southeastern Brazil. Crews using heavy machinery, rescue dogs, helicopters and boats took advantage of improved weather on Sunday to hunt for any survivors.

Authorities said that 66 people died in slides or flooding in Rio de Janeiro state, three in Minas Gerais state and six in the Sao Paulo state city of Cunha.

A civil defense spokeswoman said 2 bodies were recovered in the Carioca slum, where 15 people died, and 2 on the Ilha Grande island, where at least 29 died when a hillside collapsed on a vacation resort and neighboring houses.

Twenty areas in Angra dos Reis was still at risk of mudslides and he said some people were being evacuated.