THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 26, 2025 at 16:29 JST
A fire on Feb. 26 approaches the coastal area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. (Provided by a reader)
Just hours after firefighters extinguished a fire that had led to evacuation orders in two Iwate Prefecture cities, another blaze broke out in one of the municipalities.
The second forest fire started on the afternoon of Feb. 26 in the Attari region of Akasakicho in Ofunato.
City government officials issued an evacuation order for 2,060 residents of the Ryori district of Ofunato, where the previous fire destroyed about 320 hectares of forest.
The first fire was extinguished on Feb. 25.
Another fire started on Feb. 25 in neighboring Rikuzentakata and spread to Ofunato, but that fire was extinguished by noon on Feb. 26.
The Iwate prefectural government set up a local headquarters in Ofunato to deal with the latest forest fire.
(This article was written by Hana Matsuo and Erina Ito.)
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