Families on Friday were trying to identify relatives caught in the blaze, a day after it consumed a sprawling settlement in one of the deadliest residential fires in South African history.
Tag: Fires and Firefighters
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Fire in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kills 74
Johannesburg, with a severe shortage of affordable housing, has hundreds of illegally occupied derelict buildings that officials and housing advocates say have become firetraps.
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Why the Johannesburg Apartment Building Was a Firetrap
A visit and imagery of the five-story building show that it had a litany of major safety issues that made it vulnerable to a deadly fire.
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Johannesburg Building Fire Photos: Scenes From a Deadly Blaze
The blaze struck an abandoned building that had become a crowded squatter camp. The authorities were investigating the cause.
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Here are the latest developments.
The early-morning blaze tore through a five-story building that had become a sprawling informal settlement, officials said. The cause was not yet known.