Around Hoho, Nagano, supporters who need assistance evacuate quickly.

In Hoho, Nagano City, where the Chikuma River embankment broke down in Typhoon No. 19 and surrounding areas, it is necessary to support elderly people with disabilities and disabled people before the city calls for evacuation in a manner decided in advance. Evacuation of the inhabitants was carried out. Experts pointed out that "the effects of daily preparations are thought to have come out."

There are over 2,300 people living in the four districts of Hobo in Nagano City, where the Chikuma River embankment broke down in Typhoon No. 19, and the surrounding areas of Akanuma, Tsuno, and Omachi. %.

According to the local residents 'association, the residents' association did not provide information on evacuation preparation before 5:00 pm on the 12th of this month. The call was made and the residents were evacuating in a way that was agreed in advance.

In this area, there has been repeated flood damage since the Edo period, and a “water level mark” indicating the level of inundation at that time remains in the area.

Based on the experience of such floods, the residents' association made its own rules for evacuation in the event of a disaster four years ago, and decided in advance who will help those who need assistance, and asked their residents. In addition, we have conducted disaster prevention drills every year.

In this flood, this rule worked to some extent, but in the residents' association, two people died in the area, and those who had evacuated but returned to their homes before breaking down due to weather recovery In the future, I would like to consider measures after evacuation.

Associate professor Yasunori Tsuji of Yamanashi University, who is familiar with regional disaster prevention, said, “If you look at the inundation scale, it was not strange that even more damage occurred. "

Call out to neighbors and evacuate together

Kyoko Ogawa (64), who lives in Tsuno near Hoho, Nagano City, where the bank of the Chikuma River broke down due to the heavy rain of Typhoon No. 19, started evacuation at around 5 pm on this month, 12 hours before the flood began. It was.

Mr. Ogawa, who had experience of flooding, has decided to evacuate without waiting for the city's evacuation advisory to be issued at 6:00 pm because the amount of rain has increased.

At that time, we spoke to a 76-year-old woman living next door and evacuated together by car.

Because women are poorly seated and do not have a car license, Ogawa-san was asked by the residents' association to evacuate in the event of a disaster.

Mr. Ogawa said, “Since the residents' association told me that I would like to do it in the event of a disaster, I always worried about the woman in the neighbor's house. I was talking.

Call for evacuation by ringing “half bell” before breaking

In Hoho, Nagano City, where the Chikuma River embankment broke down due to the heavy rain of Typhoon No. 19, and in the surrounding area, the local fire brigade was set up in the fire tower before dawn on the 13th of this month before the embankment broke. And called for evacuation.

Due to the heavy rain of Typhoon No. 19, the bank of the Chikuma River broke down, and many houses were flooded in and around Hobo, Nagano City.

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, at this location, the river water started to cross the embankment at around 0:20 am on the 13th of this month, and it may have been destroyed around 4 am.

In Hobo and the surrounding four districts, around 1 am when the water began to cross the embankment, the local fire brigade sounded the “half bell” set in the four fire towers in the area and evacuated. I was calling.

According to the local fire brigade, although there was almost no ringing in the bell in recent years, the water level had risen to a height that I had never seen, so I decided to ring it at the discretion of evacuating seriously That is.

In this area, some people actually evacuated after hearing the sound of a half bell.

One of them, Takuya Kotaki, who lives in the Akanuma area near Hobo, said, “I felt that the situation where the half-bells were ringing was not normal, so I evacuated.”

“I felt that the situation at that time needed to be informed of the danger. I only needed 5 minutes, so I instructed to hit the bells in a row.” It was.

"Sounded with selflessness"

In Hoho, Nagano City, where the bank of the Chikuma River broke down due to the heavy rain of Typhoon No. 19, and the surrounding area, four half-bells in the area ringed to call for inhabitants to evacuate in the early morning of this month before the bank breaks it was done.

In Tsuno, close to Hoho, firefighter member Nobuyuki Yamada (41) ringed a half bell at 1:00 am on the 13th of this month in response to instructions from the branch leader.

Mr. Yamada said, “I thought it was good that there were some people who ran around the bells for about 5 minutes. It was.