Evacuation site at the time of disaster “Use classrooms and corridors to prevent crowding” 90% Kanagawa April 30 15:50
It was found that, before the time of heavy rainfall, nearly 90% of municipalities in Kanagawa Prefecture are expected to utilize school classrooms and corridors as evacuation sites to prevent crowded evacuees. On the other hand, there are still some operational issues, such as the lack of public health nurses in the shelter.
Before the flooding season when it rains a lot, 29 local governments, which is close to 90% of the 33 municipalities in Kanagawa prefecture, are trying to prevent crowding at evacuation centers as measures against the new coronavirus. According to NHK's interview, it is expected that the corridor is also expected to be used.
Furthermore, in 11 cities and towns, we are considering the use of sports facilities and public halls that have not been used as evacuation shelters, and are trying to disperse evacuees.
Of these, in Yokohama, where the prefecture's largest population of 3.75 million lives, the number of evacuation shelters will be increased by a maximum of approximately 1.4 times, depending on the situation of damage.
On the other hand, many local governments are not able to conduct training to confirm the evacuation procedure that was being carried out at this time every year due to the influence of the new coronavirus, and in addition to public health nurses who are placed in evacuation centers, securing disinfection spray and thermometers. However, even if the number of shelters is increased in order to avoid crowding of evacuees, there are still operational issues.
Heavy rain this month Response from Isehara City
Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, issued evacuation preparation information to some areas of the city due to heavy rain on the 18th of this month during the spread of new coronavirus infection.
While calling for e-mails to open evacuation centers and start evacuation of elderly people, he also asked, "Because there is a risk of new coronavirus infection, do not force people staying at home to evacuate."
He then received multiple inquiries from citizens asking him, "What should I do?" And faced the difficulty of achieving both infection prevention and life protection from disasters.
Isehara City is increasing the space as much as possible by opening the classrooms in addition to the gymnasium at the evacuation center and using the local community hall as an evacuation center, and we are studying to avoid "3 denseness". .
Under such circumstances, one of the headaches is the task of managing shelters.
Although spray and mask for the disinfection of hands and fingers so that the infection does not spread in the shelter has stockpiled, the thermometer to measure the heat without touching the skin not stand the prospect of secure, self-reported of people who were evacuated for physical condition I have to rely on
Tsuyoshi Oyama, who is in charge of crisis management, said, “I think that it is all up to increase the area of the shelter in order to avoid“ 3 dense ”, but there is a limit to the public health nurses and staff who can be assigned. It is difficult to predict guerrilla heavy rain etc. There is heavy rain, and the wording of the evacuation call that the residents do not hesitate is not sure if this response was correct, but even if it is a miss, we will issue evacuation information early and make it possible for the residents to have time to think. I don't have much time until the flood season, but I want to work together with the residents to respond to disasters. "