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In the previous article, I was writing about Sapporo Citizen Disaster Prevention Center (https://tunza.eco-generation.org/ambassadorReportView.jsp?viewID=12373&searchType=name&searchName=mukhlish&pageNumber=1). Building that Disaster Prevention Center is not enough for Sapporo City Government to prevent disaster. Because disaster because part of Japan people life, it becomes really urgent to be learnt. Sometimes, there are fire, earthquake, or typhoon and the only one thing to make people can face it is by preparing for the disaster. So, Sapporo Fire Bureau and Sapporo City Government held annual events, namely Fire Summer Festival, and in this year, it had been held at 26 July 2015 in the street nearby heart of Sapporo city. They closed a street for couple of hours so all people who were there can join this festival freely. The main target of this event was children, but adults are also welcomed to join. In this event, there were some stands, such as smoke simulation in the artificial smoked room. Then, there was AED free trial so all people can be able to handle first aid in the emergency. Many kids also tried to turn off fire using water hose by fire brigade guidance. In the emergency, they also introduced what kind of stuffs that we should prepare, such as food, flashlight, etc and all of them were packed in an emergency pack. One interesting stand was trying to go 20 meters up by using fire brigade car so we can understand how their feeling when they try to turn off fire in the high place. Then I realized, fire brigades are brave people and not all people can be like them. Even it just a simple event, but people attention was good and they introduced many should be prepared things for disaster. Sapporo City government try many kind of efforts to let their people well prepared to disaster. And in my opinion, preventing is better than curing so I hope this kind of efforts can be applied everywhere and we can minimalize impact of disaster itself. |
   
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That is indeed an interesting way to inculcate disaster management skills especially in the kids.
Fire summer festival is a great initiative.It leads to quick thinking as well! Good job
Posted 31-07-2015 05:20
This type of awareness campaign is also very common in Korea as well :) I do like this kind of street awareness festival. It helps people understand more about the disaster itself and becomes friendly with the issue. Thank you for sharing! :)
Posted 29-07-2015 13:47
Thank you Luiz, yes it was interesting..
Posted 29-07-2015 10:25
Your welcome Arushi.. I agree with you.. lives are precious..
Posted 29-07-2015 10:24
Hi Bindu, your welcome.. yes it is.. thats why this even had been held..
Posted 29-07-2015 10:23
Hi Rahul.. your welcome.. I had fun indeed..
Posted 29-07-2015 10:23
That was a great initiative Mukhlish!! Thanks for sharing the event mate. This sort of festival sounds very interesting. I never heard about that. Keep it up!! =)
Posted 29-07-2015 07:30
I really appreciate this disaster preparedness initiative through Fire Summer Festival. Children and youngsters must know how to act in case of emergencies. This adds to their general knowledge , prepares them for disasters and saves loss of precious lives. Thanks for a great report, Mukhlish.
Posted 29-07-2015 00:40
Preparing citizens especially kids and youths through summer fire festival for emergency is really an interesting idea. I am sure it was fun filled learning and understanding. I am sure this sort of readiness for disaster helps to minimize the loss in future.
Thank you for sharing dear Mukhlish :)
Posted 28-07-2015 21:38
Quite an interesting method to introduce fire saftey and have fun. Thanks for the report Mukhlish.
Posted 28-07-2015 20:15