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The overall situation at the Fukushima plant remains of serious concern, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. Levels of radioactive iodine and cesium across 10 prefectures was generally on an upward trend, said Graham Andrew, senior adviser to IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.
Fire brigade members in tsunami-ravaged town stood ground until the end
A member of the Otsuchi fire brigade's No. 2 branch is pictured behind the warped watchtower of the branch's post on March 22. (Mainichi)
As a deadly tsunami raced toward the Iwate Prefecture town of Otsuchi on March 11, members of the local fire brigade's No. 2 branch stood their ground, desperately warning residents of the looming disaster as they raced to secure the coastal town's tide barrier.
The tsunami triggered by the magnitude 9.0 quake on March 11 left over 1,000 dead or missing in the town. Four fire brigade members were confirmed dead and seven more have still not been found. One of them, 57-year-old Fujio Koshida, continued to ring the town's warning bell until the tunami's waves swallowed him.
The No. 2 branch of the fire brigade, located in Otsuchi's Akahama district, had the job of closing the storm barrier gates in the event of an earthquake. After the temblor struck, 11 members of the branch's 28 members headed toward the barrier gates. After one of the 14 gates was closed Koshida issued orders to fellow fire brigade member Kunio Tobinai to sound the alarm.
"You go to the post and sound the siren," Koshida told him.
The tsunami was approaching quickly. To smoothly evacuate people, all areas of the town needed to be warned. Tobinai drove to his branch's post to sound the siren, and pushed the button on the first floor to turn it on. Nothing happened. The earthquake had cut power to the entire town.
Before long, Koshida arrived. Tobinai explained the situation to him.
"All right," Koshida said, climbing to the roof of the building, "get going and evacuate everyone."
Tobibai saw Koshida holding a fire bell. It was the last time he would see him.
Use of the bell was only permitted during emergencies. Its dry clang could be heard ringing far away.
Takeyasu Tobai, the 72-year-old former head of the brigade's No. 2 branch, had escaped to higher ground several hundred meters away, and remembers the sound of the bell Koshida was ringing.
"I guess he could see the sea," Tobai said. "It was a sad sound. I can still hear it."
The first wave of the tsunami reached the town at 3:20 p.m. Towering over 5 meters high, the black wall of water easily washed over the levee. Swirling waves covered the town.
Around the same time 10 fire brigade members were helping elderly people near the branch post evacuate. The clang of the bell continued until the tsnunami reached the post.
When the waves pulled back, only the foundations of the post remained. It was 10 days later that the post's watchtower was finally spotted in the rubble.
Koshida and the fire bell that he desperately rang have still not been found.
Why are you so much more freaked about the nuke plant (which has 0 actual and probably 1-2 statistical deaths so far) than you are about the tens of thousand of people who died because they live along the coasts?
I'm not freaked out; I think, simply from an investment standpoint, building something that expensive in a known tsunami zone is suboptimal.
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"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Why are you so much more freaked about the nuke plant (which has 0 actual and probably 1-2 statistical deaths so far) than you are about the tens of thousand of people who died because they live along the coasts?
I thought at least 5 workers had died early on.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said authorities are encouraging people living between 20 and 30 kilometers (12.5 and 19 miles) from the plant to leave the area voluntarily because of the challenges they "have faced in their daily lives."
Other nations, including the United States and England, have urged their citizens to stay 80 kilometers (50 miles) or more away from the embattled power plant over radiation concerns.
That is interesting that the distance is different.
The logistics of asking a handful of people to stay 80km away and asking hundreds of thousands of people to stay 80km away are slightly different in scale.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
The logistics of asking a handful of people to stay 80km away and asking hundreds of thousands of people to stay 80km away are slightly different in scale.
What are the real risks associated with the materials that have escaped from …
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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