Volunteer fire fighters attempt to prevent a wildfire from crossing over the M3 highway and reaching residential areas of Cape Town.

Volunteer fire fighters attempt to prevent a wildfire from crossing over the M3 highway and reaching residential areas of Cape Town.

Fire fighters battle a wildfire on Table Mountain, attempting to stop it from reaching residential areas in Cape Town.

Fire fighters extinguish embers from a wildfire on the egde of Cape Town.

Fire fighters battle a wildfire on Table Mountain, attempting to stop it from reaching residential areas in Cape Town.

Fire fighters battle a wildfire on Table Mountain, attempting to stop it from reaching residential areas in Cape Town.

Fire fighters walk through thick smoke as they battle a wildfire on the edge of Cape Town.

Fire fighters battle a wildfire on Table Mountain, attempting to stop it from reaching residential areas in Cape Town.

Fire fighters battle a wildfire on Table Mountain, attempting to stop it from reaching residential areas in Cape Town.

Smoke hangs over the slopes of Table Mountain after a wildfire ripped through the area.

Fire fighters extinguish embers from a wildfire on the egde of Cape Town.

Smoke from wildfires hangs over Cape Town.

A construction site near the train station, where new houses are being built only four km from the nuclear plant. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nu...

A private home abandoned since March 2011. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away. Residents were perm...

A children's play park, abandoned since March 2011. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away. Residents...

Security staff at the entrance to a restricted area of the town where decontamination work is in progress. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the...

The area of the town around the train station. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away. Residents were...

A beer vending machine abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open t...

A shop damaged by the earthquake and abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....

A notice board in Futaba town hall, abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town ha...

An advertising board for a construction company aiming to build the foundations for the future new town. The catch phrase reads: 'From the first steps to the future'. The entire population of Futaba...

A public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 201...

An abandoned vehicle and private home empty since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....

A pile of bicycles left outside an abandoned high school that has been disused since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the...

Machinery in a farm abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored near a public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse afte...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stacked in front of the abandoned Tsushima primary school. The town of Namie, located about 9 km north of the nuclear plant, was evacuated as a result of th...

A house abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the to...

Cattle belonging to farmer Masami Yoshizawa graze on fodder in fields. They have been there since the nuclear disaster and are contaminated so cannot be eaten. The authorities ordered Mr Yoshizawa to...

Cattle belonging to farmer Masami Yoshizawa graze on fodder in fields. They have been there since the nuclear disaster and are contaminated so cannot be eaten. The authorities ordered Mr Yoshizawa to...

A dental clinic abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% o...

A child's play park and houses abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since...

Farmer Masami Yoshizawa with a picture his cattle that died following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The authorities ordered Mr Yoshizawa to slaughter the cows that survived and leave h...

A children's play park abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, on...

A trap for wild boar near houses abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Sinc...

A books and video store damaged by the 2011 earthquake and abandoned since March that year due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored in a field. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away....

The sports ground of a secondary school abandoned since March 2011. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres a...

An abandoned farm. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open to visitors and residents, who ar...

New houses, built only seven kilometres away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, ready for returnees to the town. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuc...

A solar powered radioactivity monitoring station installed in an abandoned car park. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, o...

New houses, built only seven kilometres away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, ready for returnees to the town. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuc...

Mr Hideo Endo and Mrs Kazuko Endo in their new house built only seven kilometres away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. One of several houses in an estate built for returnees to the town...

The swimming pool of a school abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2...

Decontamination work in progress, trees are cut down and a house dismantled. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4...

A children's play park abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, on...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored in a paddy field. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the to...

A construction site in the town of Futaba which has been abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiich...

A public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 201...

A greenhouse abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open to visitors...

A group of school children and their teacher listen to a lecture about the 2011 tsunami at The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum. The entire population of Futaba was ev...

A petrol station abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open to v...

The main doorway of a Buddhist temple destroyed by the earthquake and abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fuk...

Two helicopters from the Norwegian Air Force search for people in a crater caused by a large landslide that swept away a number of buildings leaving tens of people unaccounted for.

Rescue workers carry stretchers to a Sea King helicopter. A large landslide swept away a number of buildings in the town of Ask, small town about 50 km North of Oslo, and tens of people are unaccounte...

A man hauling water sits on a sidewalk to undo a knot in his rope near Escuintla City's market.

Dina Chavez, 37, arranges beef offal on her butcher's stand inside Escuintla City's main marketplace.

Berli Perez, 28, born in Chiapas, Mexico, while the community was there as war refugees, ponders at the window inside his Single-Family Transitional Shelter unit. A father of two boys, Berli states: '...

War survivor Maria Cruz Mendez, 59, speaks on the phone to her daughter inside her unit at the Single-Family Transitional Shelter. Cruz Mendez states: ''I am way too scared of the volcano to go back t...

Evelyn Janeth Funes (left), 20, and her one-year-old daughter Camila (sitting on the foor), visit Evelyn's mother Gregoria Montejo, 41, and her youngest sister Adriana Funes, 6, in their unit at the S...

Candelaria Gomez, 32, born in Chiapas, Mexico, while the community was there as war refugees, carries her six-month-old daughter Guadalupe while she bathes her three-year-old daughter Sharon at the Si...

Abi Zoila Hernandez, 33, born in Chiapas, Mexico, while the community was there as war refugees, sits on a rock while her eight-month-old son Bringner sleeps in a hammock at the Single-Family Transiti...

War survivor Eva Garcia (right), 39, burns rubbish and speaks with a neighbour as Fuego Volcano can be seen with some cloud coverage in the background from the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. Des...

Two men rake and coffee beans at the community of La Trinidad's coffee mill.

Carmen Garcia (right), 21, and her mother and war survivor Eva Garcia, 39, sit in their kitchen after dinner, at their home in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. Despite fears of the constant ac...

War survivor Eva Garcia, 39, makes corn tortillas as she speaks with her daughter Carmen Mendez, at their home in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. Despite fears of the constant activity by the...

War survivor Roberto Gonzalez, 58, sowing beans along his corn field at the foot of Fuego Volcano in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community.

War survivor Roberto Gonzalez, 58, sows beans along his corn field in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community while the Fuego Volcano erupts in the background.

Siblings Rosaida Camposeco (left), 29, and Victalino Camposeco, 31, wait for transport at the entrance to the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community while the Fuego Volcano looms in the background. Both...

North-facing landscape of the community of La Trinidad that shows how it is surrounded by three volcanic debris causeways as well as the Fuego and Acatenango volcanoes in the background. The community...

Community elder and war survivor Guadalupe Camposeco, 53, works in the corn fields in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community.

Community elder and war survivor Gervasio Lopez, 82, near his land plot in Colonia 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community.

Community elder and war survivor Conrado Hernandez, 72, near his land plot in Colonia 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community.

Jorge Ambrosio, 20, pulps coffee cherries. He is one of several young people hired full time by the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community's own coffee co-op.

War survivor Jose Camposeco, 53, watches as two young men from the community pass him by on a motorcycle in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community.

Carmen Mendez, 21, prepares to boil Chipilin leaves (Crotalaria longirostrata) known as chepil or longbeak rattlebox, for dinner, at her home in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. Along with cor...

The children of Ada Camposeco and Estuardo Lorenzo play in their porch at their home in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. From left to right: Keren Esmeralda Esperanza, 19 months old, Wesles Da...

Ada Camposeco, 34, who was born in Chiapas, Mexico, while the community was there as war refugees, sits on her family table after lunch at their home in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. Ada's...

Ada Camposeco, 34, who was born in Chiapas, Mexico, while the community was there as war refugees, serves lunch for her family consisting of boiled potatoes and Chipilin leaves (Crotalaria longirostra...

Berli Perez (left), 28, and boys from his community watch videos on their phones at the Single-Family Transitional Shelters in Escuintla City.

Marvin Mendoza, 31, rakes coffee beans at the community of La Trinidad's coffee mill.

Clothes hang-dry from windows at the Single-Family Transitional Shelters in Escuintla City.

Carmen Mendez, 21, prepares to boil Chipilin leaves (Crotalaria longirostrata) known as chepil or longbeak rattlebox, for dinner, at her home in the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community. Along with cor...

Seen from the entrance to the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community, the Fuego Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, erupts during a period of stronger-than-usual activity.

Seen from the entrance to the 15 de Octubre La Trinidad community, the Fuego Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, erupts during a period of stronger-than-usual activity.

Roughly 3 metres of volcanic debris block access along National Route 14 near the former town of San Miguel los Lotes following a violent eruption by the Fuego Volcano which completely destroyed the c...

The top part of a home remains above ground after it was covered by volcanic debris in the community of San Miguel los Lotes following a violent eruption by the Fuego Volcano which completely destroye...

Yosmari Hernandez, 29, born in Chiapas, Mexico, while the community was there as war refugees and member of the Indigenous Authority of La Trinidad's communication committee.

Group representatives from La Trinidad hold a weekly meeting to discuss the community's affairs. The community is organised in groups, hence one representative attends the meetings and relays the info...

Children play in the rain in the community of 15 de Octubre La Trinidad.