Hyogo forest fire forces hundreds to evacuate

Hyogo forest fire forces hundreds to evacuate

KOBE, Japan - An elderly woman receives assistance in evacuating her home on March 19 after a forest fire broke out earlier in the day on a mountain in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture. The fire forced 79 households, comprising 261 people, to evacuate.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001088767
  • Registered date
  • 2002/3/19 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2002 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1657 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 950.19(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    35th anniversary of Japan mountain disaster

    35th anniversary of Japan mountain disaster

    Police officers from the Shimabara police station in Nagasaki Prefecture offer silent prayers at the former site of a volunteer fire brigade station in Shimabara in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on June 3, 2026, marking the 35th anniversary of the deadly pyroclastic flow from Mt. Unzen's Fugen Peak that claimed the lives of 43 people, including firefighters, police officers and members of the press.
      Pro-Constitution rally in Japan

      Pro-Constitution rally in Japan

      People in support of keeping the pacifist Constitution intact gather in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on April 8, 2026, in protest over recent moves to revise it by some forces. Nearly 50,000 people rallied at over 160 places in Japan's 47 prefectures the same day in response to a social media call for action three days earlier by a woman in her 20s in Ibaraki Prefecture.
        Pro-Constitution rally in Japan

        Pro-Constitution rally in Japan

        People in support of keeping the pacifist Constitution intact gather in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on April 8, 2026, in protest over recent moves to revise it by some forces. Nearly 50,000 people rallied at over 160 places in Japan's 47 prefectures the same day in response to a social media call for action three days earlier by a woman in her 20s in Ibaraki Prefecture.
          Pro-Constitution rally in Japan

          Pro-Constitution rally in Japan

          People in support of keeping the pacifist Constitution intact gather in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on April 8, 2026, in protest over recent moves to revise it by some forces. Nearly 50,000 people rallied at over 160 places in Japan's 47 prefectures the same day in response to a social media call for action three days earlier by a woman in her 20s in Ibaraki Prefecture.
            Tanabata festival in Sendai

            Tanabata festival in Sendai

            Paper cranes folded by people wishing for the early reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in eastern Japan are hung in front of a department store in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.
              Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

              Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

              Turin Olympics figure skating gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (2nd from R) poses in front of a "digital monument" at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 19, 2025, as an exhibition highlighting the recovery of the three northeastern Japan prefectures severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster begins the same day. Shown on the screen is the "Miracle Pine," the only tree that survived in a coastal forest flattened by tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.
                Himeji Castle lit up in yellow

                Himeji Castle lit up in yellow

                Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, is lit up in yellow on March 8, 2025, to symbolize the mimosa flower, the symbol of the U.N.-designated International Women's Day, which is celebrated the same day.
                  Himeji Castle lit up in yellow

                  Himeji Castle lit up in yellow

                  Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, is lit up in yellow on March 8, 2025, to symbolize the mimosa flower, the symbol of the U.N.-designated International Women's Day, which is celebrated the same day.
                    Forest fire in northeastern Japan

                    Forest fire in northeastern Japan

                    Smoke rises from a forest fire on a mountain near houses in Rikuzentakata in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Feb. 25, 2025.
                      30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

                      30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

                      Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako observe a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture on Jan. 17, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,400 people.