Before dawn on the 2nd, a fire broke out in a house in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture, and one person who seems to be a woman living in this house was injured and was taken to the hospital, but he could not contact two other family members. Police and fire departments are checking.
Around 1:30 am on the 2nd, when a fire broke out in the house of Mitsuo Hoshino (82) in Hongo, Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture, a person living nearby called 110.
The fire was extinguished at about 3:20 am, but the fire was almost extinguished, but the wooden one-story house was completely burned down.
According to the police, a total of three people, Mr. Hoshino and two daughters in their 50s, lived in this house, and one woman who seems to be a daughter was injured and taken to the hospital after the fire. It means that Mr. Hoshino and his other daughter are out of contact.
The site is about 4 kilometers southwest of JR Okabe Station, and police and fire departments are checking the whereabouts of the two people who are out of contact and investigating the cause of the fire.