Volunteer acceptance resumed at the flooded special nursing home Saitama Kawagoe Oct. 21 12:03

The nursing home in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, which was flooded due to the flooding of the Koshibe River, resumed accepting volunteers that had been temporarily suspended due to rain last weekend.

Kawagoe Kings Garden, a special nursing home for the elderly in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture was flooded due to the flooding of the nearby Koshibe River, leaving the elderly and over 120 staff temporarily left on the second floor of the building.

At the facility, it was raining last weekend and the staff were tired, so we did not clean up the work on the 19th and 20th, and volunteering was suspended.

The work of cleaning up and the acceptance of volunteers resumed from the 21st, and the volunteers carried out watered furniture out of the facility with the staff.

A woman in her 60s whose mother used to live in the facility said, “I was very surprised when I watched the image of the facility in water on TV. It was.