Society January 21, 2024 6:00
Kawai-cho, Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, where houses and utility poles collapsed in the Noto Peninsula earthquake = 1:51 p.m. on the 20th
In Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, which was severely damaged by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Suwa Central Hospital (Chino City) responded to a request from AMDA (Okayama City), an NPO that provides emergency support and reconstruction support to disaster-stricken areas. We continue to provide medical support. As the hospital dispatched a third team of doctors, Nagano Nippo, with the consent of AMDA, entered Wajima City on the 20th to interview the dispatched doctors starting on the 21st.
It took about six hours to arrive at Wajima City from Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, via Himi City, Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Anamizu Town. Houses with blue tarpaulin roofs began to be seen one after another from Himi City, and collapsed houses began to appear as we passed through Nanao City. Cracks several centimeters wide ran along the road, and the road caved in in places. Paul stands there and warns people to be careful, but there doesn’t seem to be any hope for a full-scale recovery. By the time we entered Wajima City from Anamizu Town, there were many places where collapsed houses had protruded onto the streets and were blocking traffic. Traffic jams occurred intermittently. Earth and sand had collapsed at the mountain pass, crushing houses.
An intensive search of Asaichi Street in the center of Wajima City, which began on the 9th, was completed on the 19th. The 20th was quiet and quiet. There was a couple watching quietly from outside the restriction line. Her wife, Kumi Onuma (70), a resident of Hakusan City in the same prefecture, has her parents’ home a few minutes walk from Asaichi Street in Kawai-cho, Wajima City. She said, “She is so sad and shocked that she can’t put it into words,” seeing the changed appearance of the city that holds so many memories for her. After the earthquake and fire, I lost my voice for about two weeks. It wasn’t until a few days ago, after he had calmed down a bit, that he finally started to speak again. Her mother (95) is currently taking shelter at her Kumi home. She says that she says almost every day, “I want to go back to Wajima, I want to go back to Wajima.”
On that day, he returned to his parents’ home for the first time since the earthquake, packed his mother’s clothes and other items into the car, and was on his way home. On her way home from the morning market, she passed a house that had been crushed and only the roof remained, and said with a sigh, “This used to be my friend’s house.” When she returned to her parents’ house and finished loading her belongings, she said, “This place is falling apart and I can’t live there, but the house is still there. That alone is a relief. It gives me motivation to come back to Wajima.” Ta.
2024-01-20 21:02:02
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