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.
