Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 347

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Looking down Kilmore Street, three fire engines can be seen in the temporary structure being used by the Fire Service after the fire station was damaged.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 348

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Looking down Kilmore Street, three fire engines can be seen in the temporary structure being used by the Fire Service after the fire station was damaged.

Fire Eats Out Best Block of Christchurch 1908

Articles, Lost Christchurch

On the evening of February 7th, 1908 the headlines in the Star ‘screamed out’ A DISASTROUS FIRE, HUGE OUTBREAK IN THE CITY, CENTRAL BLOCK DEVASTATED, DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO HUNDREDS OF THOUS…

Photograph by Eroica Ritchie 052

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A fire engine parked beside the damaged Piko Wholefoods. Large sections of the brick facade have collapsed.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 673

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NZ Fire Service tape around a damaged property. A sign in front of the gate reads "Stay away".

Photograph by Eroica Ritchie 086

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Army and fire service personnel looking on from beside cordon fencing on Kilmore Street as a digger demolishes the Piko Wholefoods building. Behind the fencing is another badly damaged building.

The Ozone has Landed

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A digger demolishing the Ozone Dressing Sheds building. The photographer comments, "This is the end of the Ozone Dressing Sheds built in 1914. The two storey Ozone Cafe, which was a hotel, will be given it's coup de grace on Friday. They were gutted in a spectacular fire in 1922, but were unable to be saved after the Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011".

Hubbard, James, 1949- : "What's with all these disasters?.." 13 March 2011

Images, Alexander Turnbull Library

The cartoon is a spoof of Rodin's famous sculpture 'The thinker' and shows it with a globe for its head. It holds a newspaper that reads 'Massive 'quake in Japan - ChCh. 'quake, China 'quake, Aus. Floods fires etc. etc.' The thinker ponders 'What's with all these disasters?..' Context - The massive earthquake in Japan that led to a devastating tsunami and now threats from several damaged nuclear power stations, the earthquakes in Christchurch on 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011, the 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Yingjiang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province on March 15, 2011, and the January floods in Queensland, Australia, as well as bush fires on the outskirts of the Western Australia capital Perth. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).