Firefighting was battling Japan’s worst forest fire in half a century on Tuesday, which left a dead and forced around 4,000 local residents to withdraw.
White smoke from a forest area of the northern city was shown in the area around the northern city of aerial TV footage, five days after the Blaze started after a record-less rains.
The fire follows Japan’s hottest summer on record last year, as climate change increases temperatures worldwide.
By Tuesday morning, the Wildfire had infiltrated around 2.600 hectares, the fire and disaster management agency said – seven times more in the area of Central Park, New York.
It is the largest forest fire in Japan since 1975, when 2.700 hectares of Kushiro on North Hokkaido Islands.
The agency said that by Sunday, there are estimated to be damaged in 80 buildings on lease, although the details were still being evaluated.
A city official told reporters that helicopters of the military and fire departments were trying to set fire.
“At this time, there is no indication that the fire is under control,” the official said.
It is expected of overnight snow, it is turning into rain, but the official said he cannot say whether it will help in increasing the explosion.
“Bad weather can prevent helicopters from releasing water,” Heer warned.
Around 2,000 firefighters have been most deployed from other parts of the country, with air and ground working in the region in the Tokyo-Tokyo-evest area, hard-hit by a deadly tsunami in 2011.
According to the municipality, a clearance advisory has been issued for around 4.600 people, out of which 3.939 have left their homes to take shelter.
The number of wildfires in Japan has declined after the 1970s, but the country saw around 1,300 in 2023, focusing from February to April when the wind dries up and winds rise.
‘No rain’
In February, Tunneto had just 2.5 mm of rain in February, breaking the previous record-lo for a month of 4.4 millimeters in 1967, and below the normal average of 41 millimeters.
An official of a local weather agency told AFP, “There is no rain since Friday – or too little, if there is no one, there is no one.
Some types of extreme weather have a well -installed link with climate change, search as heatweave or heavy rainfall.
Other incidents such as drought, snowfall, tropical storm and wildfire can occur by combining complex factors.
Some companies have been affected by wildfires, such as Taiheo Cement, which reported that AFP has suspended its Tonto plant for several days of its premises, is in the withdrawal region.
Ofunato-based confectionery company Saitoseika warned that “if our headquarters or plants become a no-go zone, we may need to organize production, describing the situation as” tense “.
Japanese Baseball Prostage Roki Sasaki – who recently joined Los Angeles Dojers in the US – offered $ 67,000 donations and 500 sets of beds, which have been posted on X.
Sasaki was a high school student, after losing her father and grandparents in the 2011 huge tsunami.
