Flood Fighting (the fight against flooding).
Suikou deployment team and Opening ceremony.
Compared with among other types of disaster, flood often occurs anywhere but timely forecasted. Thus, it is available for giving
an early flood warning or making
flood fighting arrangement.
In Japan, by the law it's required to conduct the
flood drills annually in order to provide understanding of the type
of flood fighting activities by involving local residents, private companies, local disaster managers and students.
The benefits from this activity are raising
public awareness on flood fighting (i.e. enhancement of
public preparedness) and implementing school based
flood disaster education (i.e. capacity development
). Public awareness
is the basis for flood fighting
and it is essential for public
to be proactive and look for the problems and causes before floods
happens. Meanwhile, within the education
sector it urges to create curriculum on disaster management to educate school children and students
in the flood fighting techniques.
Flood drills (banks protection in Fujikawa).
Rescue and evacuation demonstration.
Experiencing of making sandbags.
