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Unexpected situation at the evacuation center At that time the residents ... October 15 20:55

In this torrential rain disaster, the number of people who are forced to live in evacuation shelters has risen to 5513 people in 13 prefectures in the morning of the 15th. Serious issues for shelters, such as those who were unable to enter due to visits, became clear.

The evacuation shelter leaked and flooded Miyagi Marumori Town

Marumori Town, Miyagi Prefecture, which was flooded extensively, issued an evacuation recommendation for the entire area at 3:20 pm on the 12th of this month when the Japan Meteorological Agency announced earth and sand disaster warning information.

A 71-year-old woman living near the government office was urged by the local welfare officer and evacuated to the Marumori Community Development Center next to the government office designated as a shelter in the event of a flood after 3pm.

When women arrived at the shelter, about 50 people had already evacuated. The evacuated people were on the second floor of the building, but at around 9:00 pm, it was said that the leaking of the rain began to occur as if the bucket had been turned over.

Around the same time, inundation began in the vicinity, and the town decided to move evacuees from the town development center to the next government office.

At that time, more than 70 people were evacuated. Because there were many elderly people, it was a short distance but the bus was reciprocated many times to move the evacuees over 2 hours.

A 71-year-old woman said, “I was able to move to the government office at around 11 o'clock on the 12th, it was dark outside and very heavy rain, and even if I went out a little, it was soaked.” .

If there is a risk of flooding the Abukuma River in the town, we decided to move evacuees from the town development center to hill elementary schools while watching the water level of the river, but this time the surroundings were inundated before judging The evacuation to the hill was not in time.

An 80-year-old woman evacuated to the government office said that the shelter was in a place where there was a risk of inundation, “Because there was no flood damage so far, there was a consciousness that the administration was okay. "

Evacuees exceeding expectations ... Sabae, Tokyo

In Tokyo Sabae City located along the Tama River, more than expected residents were evacuated, so the city suddenly opened a temporary evacuation center, and the evacuation area became full and had the evacuated residents move to another evacuation center Things also happened.

In Sabae City, with the approach of Typhoon No. 19, a refuge was opened at the city's central public hall for those who voluntarily evacuated after 8:00 am on the 12th of this month in order to have residents evacuate early. did.

However, because more than 200 people who evacuated the city were evacuated, they could not be accommodated in this facility, and the city hall lobby and parliament building, which were not originally planned to be used as shelters, were additionally opened.

Later, as the typhoon approached, we issued an evacuation advisory to approximately 9,000 households in the area along the Tama River at 4:30 pm on that day.

As a result, approximately 4,000 people were evacuated to 11 evacuation centers established in Sabae City, but the facility was full at 4 evacuation centers.

Of these, the Sabae Daini Junior High School, where approximately 1,000 people were evacuated, was full of facilities, so there was a situation where the displaced residents moved to another evacuation site.

The city will increase the number of evacuation shelters at the time of the disaster, including the use of private facilities as evacuation destinations, including those who voluntarily evacuated, including those who voluntarily evacuated in this Typhoon No. 19. Want to consider.

“I think it ’s good that many people have evacuated, but there ’s a limited number of facilities in the city, so it ’s great that they ca n’t accept everyone.” I think that it will be necessary to take measures such as using commercial facilities in order to create a system in which as many people as possible can evacuate. ”

Kanagawa Hayama

There was a situation in Hayama Town, Kanagawa Prefecture where the evacuation center was full and new acceptance was not possible.

According to the town, one of the refuges, “Hayama Town Welfare Culture Hall”, secured a 80-tatami Japanese room as an evacuation space. However, more than 60 people had evacuated and no space was available in about 2 hours after the opening at 8:30 am on the 12th, so it became impossible to accept new evacuees.

In the town, we put a paper stating that we cannot accept evacuees at the entrance of the hall, and called on the disaster prevention radio and website to use another shelter such as a nearby junior high school.

Serious issues revealed

Until now, even if the local government issued an evacuation advisory or evacuation order and called for evacuation because there was a danger of a disaster, there were not many people who actually evacuated, and there were cases where it was delayed. On the other hand, this time, a serious problem that the shelter was not safe or could not be entered even if many people evacuated was revealed.