The largest Japanese fire in more than three decades burned on Sunday through the wooded area of a small coastal city after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and encouraging the evacuation orders for thousands of inhabitants, fire officers said.
About 1,800 hectares (4,500 hectares) The fire was burning for days in Outatou, a city on the eastern coast of the main island of Japan, which is about 300 miles northeast of Tokyo. Since Saturday, he has grown by 400 hectares.
The Japanese Fire Management and Disaster Agency announced that she found out for the fire on Wednesday afternoon and that at least 84 houses were damaged by Wednesday night. Japanese media reports say police found a man on the road on Thursday morning while checking the area. Local authorities confirmed to a man’s death but did not give any other details.
On Wednesday, the Government issued a warrant for about 4,600 inhabitants, according to the Fire Agency. Some 1,200 have been in shelters from Sunday morning.
Almost 1,700 firefighters from 14 prefecture have been sent from Wednesday to fight flames, according to city officials. Video shots from NHKThe Japanese public television show showed that firefighters are circling the rolled clouds of smoke rising over the forest, while the orange flame raged between the trees.
It was not immediately clear how many firefighters crews achieved in the container of fire or whether the fire had caused additional damage to buildings since Wednesday. The fire agency could not contact the comment.
The cause of the fire was under investigation, the agency said.
The last forest fire of this scale in Japan burned more than 1,000 hectares on the northern island of Hokkaido in 1992, a spokesman for the fire agency said on Sunday, Sunday, reported Japan Times.
Ohunato -s’s most noble season is usually from January to March, according to Japanese meteorological agency. Last month, she was the most modern February there in more than two decades.
Fire officers in Japan also fought two smaller fires on Sunday. The first, in the prefecture of Yamanashi, west of Tokyo, began on Wednesday, and by Saturday it has grown to 120 hectares, according to the Fire Agency. The second, in the northern prefecture of Nagano, began on Friday and reached 100 hectares by Sunday.
