The annual New Year’s Fire Review, known as dezomeshiki, was held at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward on Tuesday.
In all, about 2,900 skilled firefighters and members of community-based hearth firms in Tokyo and greater than 130 hearth automobiles, helicopters and ships had been mobilized for the occasion which was attended by Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike.
This elaborate occasion is a spectacular demonstration of fireplace and catastrophe prevention carried out by the Tokyo Metropolitan Fire Department. It featured firefighting drills, rescue, first support, a parade of firefighting tools and different numerous performances.
Members of a standard firefighting preservation group carry out ladder stunts in the course of the annual New Year’s Fire Brigade Review in Tokyo on Tuesday. Image: AP/Eugene Hoshiko
Some of the firefighting strategies date again to the Edo period (1603-1867). Men dressed as Edo period firemen carried out acrobatic stunts on high of bamboo ladders.
The occasion was livestreamed on YouTube.
Fire departments from Saitama City, Yokohama and different cities additionally took half.
At the tip of the ceremony, there was a simultaneous water cannon demonstration.
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