Japan is currently fighting the largest forest fire that has experienced it since the 1980s. The flames anger in the northeast of the country, an area of approximately 3,600 football fields has already been destroyed, more than 1000 people had to be evacuated.
The fire in Ofunato, which broke out last week in the Iwate prefecture, now spread to more than 2,600 hectares, as the Japanese television station NHK reported, referring to the prefecture administration.
More than 1200 people had to be evacuated at CNN station. About 80 buildings have already become the robbery of the flames. More than 2000 soldiers and firefighters from all over the country are used to fight the fire.
Helicopter throws water
There is a dense white smoke above the mountain forest northeast of the bay of Ofunato. According to the NHK, a helicopter of the defense groups has been throwing water since Tuesday morning. On Thursday a man was found dead in a street – the authorities are currently investigating whether death is connected to the fire.
Tsunami destroyed in the region 14 years ago
According to the authority of fire and disaster protection, it was the largest forest fire in Japan since the end of the 1980s, the Kyodo press agency reported. The Tohoku region, which includes the prefecture, was hit almost exactly 14 years ago by a major earthquake and huge tsunami. The catastrophe on March 11, 2001 killed around 20,000 people and led to a super-Gau in the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The Japanese head of the Shigeru Ishiba government promised during a parliamentary meeting “to use all the skills of the fire brigade and the self -defense forces to prevent people from being affected”. According to Kyodo, the emergency services from all over the country in Iwate had previously succeeded in preventing the flames from spreading to residential areas in Ofunato.
Source: Krone
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