7th National Joint Emergency Fire Training: Miyagi Field Exercise
Overview
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency holds a national joint exercise approximately every five years to improve the Emergency Fire Response Teams’ skills and their ability to coordinate with partner organizations. The seventh exercise will simulate a subduction-zone earthquake around the Japan and Chishima trenches. For the first time, the field exercises are planned at two sites, in Hokkaido and Miyagi Prefecture. In November, a field exercise involving coordination with partner organizations will take place in Miyagi Prefecture.
Key points
- The Emergency Fire Response Teams were established in response to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995.
- The teams have been deployed 49 times in response to major disasters.
- The seventh national joint exercise will simulate a subduction-zone earthquake around the Japan and Chishima trenches.
- For the first time, the field exercise is planned at two sites, in Hokkaido and Miyagi Prefecture.
Overview
The Emergency Fire Response Teams were established in response to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency holds a national joint exercise, bringing together Emergency Fire Response Teams from across Japan, approximately every five years to improve the teams’ skills and their ability to coordinate activities with partner organizations.
This is the seventh national joint exercise, and the assumed scenario is a subduction-zone earthquake around the Japan and Chishima trenches.
Details
The seventh exercise is planned as the first field exercise to be held at two sites, in Hokkaido and Miyagi Prefecture.
In November, a field exercise simulating a major disaster and involving coordination with partner organizations will be conducted in Miyagi Prefecture.