An officer receives information through the radio from firefighters as they tackle the fire in Diogo Pires shantytown in western Sao Paulo, Brazil Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty ImagesPeople try to save a car from the flames. More than half of the 600 families living in the shantytown lost all their belongings in the blaze whose origin has not been determinedPhotograph: Nelson Antoine/APFirefighters tackle the blazePhotograph: Nelson Antoine/AP
Firefighters work during a fire in Sao PauloPhotograph: Nelson Antoine/APFire officials say there is no word yet on what caused the blaze. There are no reports of deathsPhotograph: Nelson Antoine/APPeople take pictures during the fire in Sao PauloPhotograph: Nelson Antoine/APFirefighters extinguish the fire in ramshackle homes at Diogo Pires shantytown in western Sao Paulo Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty ImagesA resident takes a photograph with his mobile phonePhotograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty ImagesResidents spray water during the fire in Sao PauloPhotograph: Nelson Antoine/APA firefighter sprays water at the site where a fire broke out in a Sao Paulo slumPhotograph: Nelson Antoine/AP
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