Before dawn on the 19th, a house in Ishikawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture, was completely destroyed by fire, and it has become impossible to contact the couple in their 90s and 80s who live in this house.
Around 0:45 am on the 19th, a family member living next door reported to the fire department that the house of Mr. Sadaichi Watanabe (90) of Tobigasaku, Ishikawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture was on fire.
As a result of the dispatch of nine fire engines to extinguish the fire, the fire was extinguished after about an hour and a half, but one wooden two-story house was completely burned down.
After this fire, Watanabe-san and his wife in their 80s have not been contacted.
Police and fire departments are investigating the details.
The site is an area dotted with houses, about 3 km northwest of Iwaki-Ishikawa Station on the JR Suigun Line.