Setagaya-ku, Tokyo to review evacuation shelters in case of floods December 26 16:53
Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, where houses were flooded by floods due to Typhoon No. 19, said that the current system in which only staff members are operating evacuation shelters in the event of a flood is inadequate. We are going to consider it in the direction to get it.
In the typhoon No. 19 in October, the water level of the Tama River rose in Setagaya Ward, flooding some places without embankments, and flooding nearby roads and houses, causing a total of 580 damage. The building was damaged.
At that time, evacuation orders were issued mainly along the Tama River, and more than 5,300 people were evacuated to the 27 evacuation centers that were opened. Has been reached.
As a result, there remain issues such as the inability of evacuees to enter evacuation centers such as elementary schools, which the ward has gradually established, and the inability to smoothly navigate to other evacuation destinations.
In Setagaya Ward, one of the factors is that the operation of evacuation shelters in the event of a flood was carried out only by staff members with limited staff.
Therefore, in the event of a typhoon or other flood, the ward will continue to consider ways to strengthen its system, such as operating shelters in cooperation with local residents' associations.
"The local residents' association has been conducting evacuation shelter training and has been reviewing it in a way that will help the residents who have acquired it to some extent cooperate," said Mayor of Setagaya Ward Noboru Hosaka. Is.