Gifu Shirakawa-go Parking Lot Fire Examine the cause of fire November 5, 13:58

A parking lot for tourists in Shirakawa-go, Shirakawa-mura, Gifu Prefecture, registered as a World Heritage site in a Gassho-style village. On the 4th, the fire broke out in the two huts. To investigate the cause of the fire.

Before 3pm on the 4th, two buildings, including storage and power distribution facilities, were burned down in a parking lot for tourists in Shirakawa-go, Shirakawa Village, a World Heritage site.

There were no injuries and there was no damage to the surrounding gassho-style buildings, but at that time there were many tourists and it was temporarily noisy.

The police and the fire department started on-site verification before 10:00 am on the 5th, and after removing the haze that had been used on the burned-out roof, they investigated the cause of the fire.

According to the police, there were cars and snow removal tools stored in the storage shed, and according to the village, there was an accumulation box for temporarily storing garbage at the back of the hut.

In Shirakawa Village, just after the fire of Shuri Castle in Okinawa Prefecture, it was just calling attention to the fire by local cable broadcasting, and the local people and many tourists watched the state of the burning mark on the 5th It was.

A 78-year-old man living in a gassho-style house said that he operated a water discharge facility to wet the roof to prevent the spread of fire on the 4th. I think I was able to prevent the spread of fire because I usually trained the operation of the water discharge facility. "