(27 Jan 2025)
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Johannesburg, South Africa – 27 January 2025
1. Wide community members extinguishing a fire using buckets of water at the Booysens informal settlement
2. Various community members extinguishing fire with buckets of water
3. Wide of Kevin Jones recovering items from his destroyed property
4. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Kevin Jones, Booysens informal settlement resident:
"I managed to remove all my belongings and most of my property was not destroyed. I sympathise with other community members because as you can see most people no longer have a place to stay. Everything of theirs is destroyed."
5. Wide of a firefighter using a hose to extinguish blaze
6. Wide of people standing in smoke among their smouldering homes
7. Wide Puseletso Koetje walking within the settlement
8. SOUNDBITE (Sotho) Puseletso Koetje, Booysens informal settlement resident:
"I received a call whilst at work that there’s a fire here and we came running. The men in the community tried to extinguish the blaze but failed due to the fire being too strong. There were gas cylinders which made the fire burn out of control."
9. Wide of residents sitting with their belongings after the fire
10. Wide of man trying to put out smouldering property
11. Wide of residents filling buckets with water
12. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Simlindile Pulu, Booysens informal settlement resident:
"I live here with my wife and children, and we’ve lost everything that you could imagine. Everything that was inside the house is burnt including our identity documents, even my clothes. My wife and kids lost everything in the fire."
13. Wide of fire fighters extinguishing the blaze
14. Various community members searching for their belongings
15. Zoom out people searching for their belongings to a fire fighter putting out fire
STORYLINE:
A fire gutted a settlement in Johannesburg, destroying homes and possessions while leaving hundreds of residents homeless on Monday.
Simlindile Pulu lives with his wife and child at the Booysens informal settlement and told The Associated Press, “We’ve lost everything that you could imagine. Everything that was inside the house is burnt including our identity documents, even my clothes.”
Residents believe the fire started when a paraffin stove exploded.
Many of the homes are built using plastic materials, wood, and corrugated iron with many shelters only a few inches away from each other.
Puseletso Koetje was able to save her ID cards and other personal belongings but said the structures made the fire worse.
"The men in the community tried to extinguish the blaze but failed due the fire being too strong. There were gas cylinders which made the fire burn out of control,” Koetje said.
A local councillor for the area said as many as 1,500 shelters have been destroyed.
Aided by locals, firefighters were able to bring the fire under control allowing residents to collect what little of their personal belongings remained.
AP Video shot. by Nqobile Ntshangase
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