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Cape Town fire burns university library, students evacuated

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JOHANNESBURG – 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 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.

At least two floors of Jagger Library burned, according to local news reports. Other campus buildings also caught fire, and a historic windmill nearby burned.

Just off-campus on the slopes of Table Mountain, wind spread the flames across dry brush, and part of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant caught fire, Cape Town media reported.

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