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Emergency fire brigade activities following the Great East Japan Earthquake

Last Updated January 29, 2019

Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture (commitment support (*), information gathering, emergency services)

A helicopter owned by Fire Bureau to the Yoshihama district of Ofunato City (Yoshihama Junior High School Ground)
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Transferred injured from Iwate Prefectural Kamaishi Hospital to Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital by helicopter owned by Fire Bureau
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Damage situation in Toni District, Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture
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  1. Transporting supplies to the Yoshihama district of Ofunato City (Yoshihama Junior High School Ground)
  2. Transferred injured from Iwate Prefectural Kamaishi Hospital to Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital
  3. Damage situation in Toni District, Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture

Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture (Construction support (*))

Joined an air squadron at Fukushima Airport and flies to Miyako City via Hanamaki Airport
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See how the disaster situation and coordinate activities with the fire department in affected areas, other emergency fire brigades and the Self-Defense Forces.
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Damage situation in Yamada District
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  1. Joined the Air Corps at Fukushima Airport and flew to Miyako City via Hanamaki Airport.
  2. Confirmation of the disaster situation and coordinate action policies with the affected areas Fire Department, other emergency fire brigades, SDF, etc.
  3. Damage situation in Yamada District

※Command support means that when a large-scale disaster occurs, a helicopter is dispatched to affected areas promptly to collect and transmit information on the disaster, and to carry out support activities so that emergency fire brigade dispatched to affected areas.

Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture (information gathering, human life search, danger elimination activities)

Human life search activities by boating in Wakabayashi Ward
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Human life search activities in Miyagino Ward
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Activities to search for human life in collapsed houses in Miyagino Ward
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  1. Human life search activities in Wakabayashi Ward
  2. Human life search activities in Miyagino Ward
  3. Human life search activities in Miyagino Ward

Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture (emergency transport activities)

After a meeting of the emergency firefighting aid team Kanagawa Battalion at Azuma Sports Park, a camp site, each squad is dispatched.
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Each vehicle of the emergency firefighting aid team waiting at Fukushima Prefecture Fire School
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Carrying the victim from Fukushima Medical University Hospital to a medical institution outside the prefecture
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  1. After a meeting of the Kanagawa Prefectural Corps at Azuma Sports Park in the camp, each squad was dispatched.
  2. Vehicles waiting at Fukushima Prefecture Fire School
  3. Carrying the victim from Fukushima Medical University Hospital to medical institutions outside the prefecture

Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS)

City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau's dispatch unit
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A member dressed in simple protective clothing
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A member wearing a protective mask
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  1. City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau Dispatch Unit, Mobile Second Rescue Work Vehicle (right photo) and others
  2. Simplified protective clothing
  3. Dressing protective mask

Cosmo Oil, Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, Chiba Refinery (cooling water discharge activities)

Daikoku-cho High-alt water discharge corps to the plant by Daikoku-cho High-altitude water discharge squad
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Water discharge activities by fire-fighting boat guards
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State of the tank that collapsed and burned.
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  1. Cooling and discharging water into the plant by Daikoku-cho High-altitude water discharge squad
  2. Water discharge activities by fire-fighting boat Mamori
  3. Damage to the tank that collapsed fire

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Fire Bureau Police Department, Police Department

Phone: 045-334-6409

Phone: 045-334-6409

Fax: 045-334-6710

Email address: sy-keibo@city.yokohama.jp

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