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Title: Property damaged by fire and rioting, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: The burnt out shells of shops and houses in Langa after a night of rioting and arson.
Identifier: islandora:16352

Title: First automated control fire engine, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: This R88 000 automated control fire engine, the first to be seen in South African, has won orders worth more than R3-million for suppliers, FMC (Pty) of Stikland. FMC makes smaller machines and plans to make this American-designed one locally as well. Pump priming, rewinding of hose reels and other functions are pushbutton controlled. The vehicle can carry a seven-man crew and 2 800 litres of water. Its top speed: 120 km an hour.
Identifier: islandora:14971

Title: Army official squints into the light while firing a smoke gun, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Army official squints into the light while firing a smoke gun, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16194

Title: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Fire brigades, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14590

Title: After the fire at Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Amid buckled and blackened sheets of corrugated iron and smouldering remnants [of] household effects, survivors of a huge Crossroads fire begin to build their shacks again yesterday on the same sites - but with better precautions against fire.
Identifier: islandora:17518

Title: Policeman watches a building being destroyed by fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: A riot-squad policeman watches as a fire rages inside part of the Nyanga East Community Centre today.
Identifier: islandora:16277

Title: Policemen fire at demonstrators, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South African Police, Demonstrations
Description: Right: A policeman fires at a group of demonstrators.
Identifier: islandora:17579

Title: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Fire brigades, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14975

Title: A man inspects the damage done by a fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism
Description: An employee points out some of the damage caused early yesterday morning when a fire broke out at Sacca Ltd in Brickfield Road, Salt River. Arson is suspected.
Identifier: islandora:16312

Title: Police fire at rioters, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, South African Police, Apartheid, Riots
Description: Police fire at rioting squatters today at Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:17590

Title: Bellville Fire Department,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires departments, History, Civil services, Transport
Description: Bellville firemen lined up today to say farewell to the town council's 30-year-old fire-engine (left), which has been given to the Cape Town Crankhandle Club. On the right is the new R19,000 fire-engine.
Identifier: islandora:16792

Title: Fires, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Devil's Peak (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Fires, Fire departments
Description: Firemen work under a rain of glowing debris on Tafelberg Road, Devil's Peak, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14963

Title: Mountain fire, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Disasters, Fires
Description: Fires, mountain veld and forest.
Identifier: islandora:14572

Title: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Fire brigades, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14598

Title: Veld fires, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Disasters, Fires
Description: Veld fires, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14960

Title: Veld fires, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Disasters, Fires
Description: Fires, mountain veld and forest.
Identifier: islandora:14587

Title: Fireman puts out a fire which engulfed a house, Cape Town
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Property, Fire fighters, Residential buildings
Description: Firemen playing hoses on one of the homes in today's blaze at Pinelands.
Identifier: islandora:15826

Title: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:14980

Title: Fireman lifts colleague from scene of fire, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: The famous fireman's lift: a fireman lifts a colleague from the scene of a fire.
Identifier: islandora:14973

Title: Winchester House on fire, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Disasters, Fires, Apartheid
Description: Flames leap from a window on the top floor of Winchester House in Long Street today as a fireman on a hydraulic platform directs a water jet on to the fire which spread from blazing wooden rafters in the roof.
Identifier: islandora:14568

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