AICHI, Jan 21 (News On Japan) –
A constructing in Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture, was engulfed in intense flames on January 18th after firefighters obtained a name shortly after 5 p.m. reporting {that a} home was on fireplace.
Fire engines and different emergency autos rushed to the scene, with 15 items dispatched in whole, and the blaze was introduced beneath management about six hours later, however a two-story wood dwelling and a storage shed had been utterly destroyed.
According to police, an aged couple residing in the home mentioned sparks got here from their kotatsu, suggesting a heating equipment might have triggered the fireplace.
Similar heater-related fires had been additionally reported in Tokyo, the place flames burst violently from the balcony of an condo unit and gave the impression to be spreading to the ground above.
A hearth broke out on the evening of January 18th in a room inside a nine-story condo constructing, sending seven folks to hospital, though 4 had been handled for minor accidents together with burns.
The resident of the unit the place the fireplace began reportedly advised investigators that bedding and a sweater close to an electrical heater caught fireplace and the flames shortly unfold.
Source: FNN