Yesterday was the last day of Autumn Fire Prevention Week in Japan. The week starts annually on November 9th, as a reminder to dial 11-9 in case of a fire. The local firestation (shoubousho) was open to the public on Sunday, and since it is literally a stone's throw from our house we decided to have a look. A number of firefighting and rescue operations were on display or being demonstrated. We saw a demonstration of a portable defibrillator which talks the user through the steps on how to use it, firemen sliding a stretcher and themselves down a rope, and a fireman abseiling down the side of a building. Children could wield (water-based) fire extinguishers and watch animations -- from what I could see, it just looked like Pokemon to me, though. We saw a young child crying its eyes out after its parents had put it in an oversized fireman's outfit, and were trying to take a picture of it.
The highlight however was the chance to be lifted up an extending crane to about 30m high (shown here about halfway up).
For me, Autumn Fire Prevention Week has done its job - I've since had a look at the website of the Tokyo Fire Department (English page) and know what to do in case of fire: run down the road to the shoubousho! Or dial 119.
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At our apartment building the "fire people" come to check our alarms and fire escapes regularly. Good show!
If you ever get the chance to go in one of these earthquake-simulation trucks, do so! It's great fun. It's basically a small room suspended in the truck with a table and cupboard, and a window with a cardboard building hanging outside it. They then simulate an earthquake of scale 6 and the whole thing shakes like nobody's business, with even the building "outside" the window swinging to and fro.
I still get the cold sweats with any decent quake (which are alarmingly regular).
Thanks, I'll be looking out for those during "Disaster Preparedness
and Volunteers' Week", Jan.15 - 21!
haha kicke site kees
ik kreeg de tip van je vader om toch even te kijken naar de fire prevention week van de brandweer van tokyo stad
hoe is het daar in het verre tokyo? hoe is je japans ondertussen? (allemaal vragen die niet op een blog horen)
En komt de rauwe vis met zeewier al uit je oren? of zit je deze week aan de walvis?
groeten uit Rotterdam
moet controleren:)
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