No one has died of heat stroke in the past 10 years in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, which recorded the highest temperature of 40.7 degrees this month. Although the death toll is successive due to the nationwide hot summer, what measures are taken by the city where about 110,000 people live?
"Today, the temperature in the city has exceeded 38 degrees, please be careful of heat stroke"
Noon 24th this month. Broadcast from the disaster prevention radio speakers in 191 locations in the city, broadcasting attention along with the chime flowed. It is a unique initiative of the city that will continue since 2006. Broadcast when it exceeds 38 degrees. On this day, I measured a maximum temperature of 39 · 1 degree at 1 pm.
"Ping-pong pan pong sounds hot today, too, I think I have to be careful," a 50-year-old woman in the city says. When I recorded the maximum domestic temperature of 40 · 9 degrees at that time in August 2007, I look back on that it was "like a sauna." "This year there are a lot of days I can not sleep at night, I can not spend without air conditioning"
In addition to the disaster prevention radio, about 13,000 citizens are registered as emergency mails, calling for outspoken sports and hydration supplement. There are mists in three places such as Tajimi station, and from mid - 15th I put mist equipment that can be carried to all elementary and junior high schools, kindergartens, nursery schools.
According to the city, there are people who are carried emergency by heat stroke since 2007, but no one died of heat stroke. The city that came to be known nationwide because of the heat wave has raised "the best heat control measures in Japan". The person in charge said that "It may be able to cope before it becomes severe," and he sees that he is exerting a certain effect. (Yusuke Saito)