Typhoon effect Call for continued heat outage prevention Kanagawa Yokosuka September 10 20:44
Due to the impact of Typhoon No. 15, power outages continue in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Yokosuka City is calling for the prevention of heat stroke by opening public facilities that can use air conditioning.
Due to the impact of the typhoon, even at 4:00 pm on the 10th in Kanagawa Prefecture, the impact of the power outage continued at over 20,000 units, including 10,500 units in Yokosuka City and 7,200 units in Kamakura City.
In Yokosuka City, the highest temperature during the day rises to 34 degrees 9 minutes with the thermometer installed at the Fire Department, and the city has opened 22 community centers in the city where air conditioning can be used. .
Among them, in the town hall in the Sahara area where 1,300 households had a power outage, residents living in the area where the power was cut off were cool and cool in an open Japanese-style room.
In addition, district welfare officers carry out activities to watch the elderly living alone, check the safety around each house, ask if there are any problems caused by power outages, etc. I was calling to use the hall.
A 69-year-old man who visited us said, “I'm grateful to you because I live alone. I can't use the air conditioner or the refrigerator, so I hope I can restore electricity as soon as possible.”
Mr. Tomie Kimishima, a member of the local welfare committee, said, “We want people to actively use air-conditioned public facilities without being patient, because they can die from heat stroke.”