Fukushima Iwaki Oct. 16 18:40 in the district where four people were sacrificed
In Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, a total of 8 people died due to the impact of Typhoon No. 19. Of these, in the Hirashita-Hiraikubo area, four elderly people are sacrificed, and it is a challenge how to protect the lives of so-called disaster victims.
The Hiraishita-Hiraikubo district, about 3 kilometers north of Iwaki city center, flooded the Natsui River that flows nearby under the influence of Typhoon No. 19, and four people died.
According to Iwaki City, this area was damaged by inundation in 1986 and 1989, and when the heavy map rained on the hazard map created by the city, the wide area of the area was 2 meters. It was supposed to be flooded.
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the heavy rain this time continued to increase from the morning of the 12th of this month at the observation point about 3km downstream of the Shimohirakubo district, and exceeded the flood risk level from late at night until the next day of 13th. .
According to the residents of Shimohirakubo district, on the night of the 12th, it was flooded to the height below the knee, and then the water level rose and some people evacuated on the roof because the first floor of the building was used. It is a succession.
According to Iwaki City, all four people who died were elderly people in their 80s and older, and all were drowned.
The city provided information on evacuation preparations throughout the city at 10:00 am on the 12th, calling for people with disabilities, such as elderly people, to evacuate early.
However, this district did not have a disaster prevention administrative radio system that communicates information all at once. According to the city, the disaster prevention radio system has been developed only for coastal areas in preparation for the tsunami.
At the stage when the city issued information calling for evacuation, the city called for evacuation via disaster prevention e-mail that reaches the registered person's mobile phone or area e-mail that reaches people in the target area even if they are not registered .
However, some residents in the district heard that it was difficult to tell whether the contents of the email corresponded to their district, and there were elderly people who did not have a mobile phone.
The city called on the fire brigade to call for direct evacuation approximately half a day after the danger was imminent and the evacuation instructions were issued.
Iwaki City has decided to consider how to communicate the information after having had a problem in how to convey this information, and it has become a new issue on how to protect the so-called disaster victims.