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The Tokyo Fire Department (TFD) (Japanese: 東京消防庁, Tokyo Shōbōchō), Founded in 1948, is the fire department of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.The TFD is the largest urban fire department in the world with a total staff of 18,408.
According to a survey by the Tokyo Fire Department cited by local media, from 2019 to 2023, 368 people were hospitalized with mochi or other items stuck in their throats, and more than 90% of them ...
An explosion at a building in Tokyo’s Shimbashi commercial district on Monday shattered windows and spewed smoke, injuring four people, department officials said. Tokyo Fire Department said the ...
According to a survey conducted by Tokyo Fire, 368 people were rushed to the hospital after choking on mochi between 2019 and 2023, with about 90% of them people over 65 years old, Nippon TV reported.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency was established through article 3 paragraph 2 of the 1948 National Government Organization Act and article 2 of the 1947 Fire Department Organization Law. The agency is charged with supervising firefighting efforts as well as project planning, ordinance enforcement, and establishing standards and policies ...
The Tokyo Fire Department estimated a higher toll: 97,000 killed and 125,000 wounded. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department established a figure of 83,793 dead and 40,918 wounded and 286,358 buildings and homes destroyed. [28] Historian Richard Rhodes put deaths at over 100,000, injuries at a million and homeless residents at a million. [29]
In the event of a large-scale disaster overseas, the SRT may also be deployed as part of an urgent international rescue task force. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's R110 and Tokyo Fire Department's Hyper Rescue are the other elite rescue teams which may form such a task force alongside the Japan Coast Guard's Special Rescue Team.
At least four people have been injured after an explosion tore through a building in downtown Tokyo on Monday, 3 July. Thick smoke swelled in the air after the blast scattered debris across a busy ...