World heritage Gifu Shirakawa-go, two huts burnt down No fire spread in the village building November 4, 19:15
Two huts were burnt down in the afternoon on the 4th in a parking lot for tourists in Shirakawa-go, Shirakawa Village, Gifu Prefecture, which is registered as a World Heritage site in a Gassho-style village. There were no injuries and there was no damage to the surrounding gassho-style buildings, but there were many tourists around the site and it was temporarily noisy.
A fire broke out from the hut at the parking lot for tourists in Shirakawa-go, Shirakawa-mura, Gifu, registered as a World Heritage site on the 4th, before 3pm.
The fire was extinguished after about an hour and a half, but according to the police, the fire broke out in a wooden thatch, both a hut used as a storeroom and a hut with power distribution facilities, a total of 44 square meters burned down Did. In addition, the light truck that was stopped in the hut used as a storeroom was burnt.
There were no injuries, and there was no fire spread in the Gassho-style village building on the opposite bank across the river.
Because it was the last day of three consecutive holidays, at the time of the fire, there were many tourists using sightseeing buses and passenger cars near the site and it was temporarily noisy.
The police and the fire department are investigating the cause of the fire in detail.
Shirakawa-go is known as a village with a unique landscape of gassho-zukuri, and in 1995 (= 1995) together with the Gokayama village in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture, “Shirakawa-go, Gokayama Gassho-style village” It is registered as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.
Within this area, there are 59 main houses and 55 huts in the Shirakawago area.
According to Shirakawa Village, in order to prevent sparks from splashing on other gassho-style buildings, all the water discharge devices installed in the village were operated manually to prevent the spread of fire. is.
These water discharge devices are installed in major gassho-style buildings, etc., with the assistance of the Agency for Cultural Affairs since being registered as a World Cultural Heritage Site. We are promoting efforts to protect
When the fire broke out, there were many tourists around the site and it was temporarily noisy.
According to the local tourism association, in this area, in response to the fire of Shuri Castle in Okinawa Prefecture, the village called for attention to the fire by local cable broadcasting, and on the 27th of last month also conducted a training assuming a fire It was that.
A tourist man said, “Smoke is visible when crossing a nearby bridge, and when you go further and stop at a nearby souvenir shop, you can see the roof burning. I spoke to you. "
Also, a woman at a souvenir shop in the immediate vicinity of the site said, “I was very surprised that the smoke would go out and I could see the flame and my shop might burn. There was also a fire in the village, so there was just a caution from the village office. "
A 64-year-old woman who lived in this area said, “I was surprised because there was a fire at Shuri Castle in Okinawa, and all the residents were nervous about the fire.”