4 people died on the ground floor of a flooded apartment or home.
In Motomiya City, Fukushima Prefecture, where the inundation spread, 4 out of 5 people who were involved in rescue operations were killed in apartments and on the ground floor of their homes.
Among them, a man in his 70s who was confirmed dead on the 13th lived in the first floor room of a two-story apartment, about 800 meters away from the Abukuma River.
According to the residents of the apartment, the area around the apartment suddenly flooded as the typhoon approached, and the water level increased to the height of the person's chest in just one hour after the flood was noticed.
Furthermore, the water level rose to the level of the second floor, and when I spoke to the man on the first floor from the veranda on the second floor, there was a reply until about 5 am on the 13th.
After that, there was no reply, and it was confirmed that the man died in the room on the first floor after about 4 hours.
A woman who lived in the same apartment said, “I didn't expect the water to come up so far, so it was all right.