Cape Town wildfire burns university library as students evacuated

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Press Association 2021
A helicopter drops water over a fire at Rhodes Memorial on Table Mountain, Cape Town (Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)
A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the historic campus library and forcing the evacuation of students on Sunday.
Orange flames lit up the windows of the library that houses considerable archives and book collections while firefighters sprayed jets of water to douse the blaze.
Other campus buildings also caught fire, and a historic windmill nearby burned.
At least two floors of Jagger Library were burned, according to local news reports.

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