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Greece boosts wildfire prevention measures ahead of "tough" summer

STORY: Greece boosts wildfire prevention measures ahead of "tough" summer SHOOTING TIME: June 5, 2024 DATELINE: June 6, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:36 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of wildfire 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, Greek Prime Minister 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Greek): THEODOROS SKYLAKAKIS, Greek Environment and Energy Minister STORYLINE: Greece is bracing for an "extremely difficult" summer, and will strengthen its wildfire prevention and firefighting mechanism, as climate change threatens with scorching temperatures and heightened threats, according to Greek officials. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, Greek Prime Minister "A tough summer lies ahead, but we are better prepared." The prime minister made the remarks on Tuesday during the inauguration of a Civil Protection Operational Center in central Greece. Last year, 20 people lost their lives due to wildfires, over 120,000 hectares of forests and farmland were burnt and hundreds of houses were damaged or des

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Kobe high schoolers visit tsunami-hit Ishinomaki school

OSAKA, Japan - Students of Maiko high school in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, stand in front of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2014. They visited the school which lost many pupils in the March 2011 tsunami as part of an extracurricular activity at the high school offering a disaster prevention course, the only such course provided at a Japanese high school.

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Prefecture given ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Local officials bow in a ceremony in front of the steel frame of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami, in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi on Dec. 22, 2015. The town, which previously decided to dismantle the frame, transferred ownership of it to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frame. People who lost loved ones there have sought the frame's destruction while others have argued for its preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prefecture given ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Jin Sato (L), the mayor of Minamisanriku town in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi, and a prefectural official participate in a ceremony on Dec. 22, 2015, in front of the steel frame of the town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami. The town, which previously decided to dismantle the frame, transferred ownership of it to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frame. People who lost loved ones there have sought the frame's destruction while others have argued for its preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prefecture handed over ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Photo taken Dec. 22, 2015 from a drone shows the steel frames of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami, in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi. The same day, the town, which previously decided to dismantle the frames, transferred their ownership to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frames. Family members who lost their loved ones there have sought their destruction while others have argued for their preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prefecture handed over ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Photo taken Dec. 22, 2015 from a drone shows the steel frames of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami, in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi. The same day, the town, which previously decided to dismantle the frames, transferred their ownership to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frames. Family members who lost their loved ones there have sought their destruction while others have argued for their preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. explains plan on anti-disaster bldg. frame to families

A man visits the steel frame of Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building, damaged by the 2011 tsunami, in Miyagi Prefecture on April 9, 2015. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai told bereaved family members who lost their loved ones there about a plan to transfer the ownership of the building from the town to the prefecture until March 2031 and postpone the decision on whether to preserve or disassemble it. Many people continue to visit the place where 43 people died or went missing in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 months after March quake, tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Yumiko Miura (L) and Mikiko Hozawa pray for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in front of the disaster prevention office of the local government in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 11, 2011. The two sisters, currently staying at an evacuation center, lost their relative at the building in the disaster which devastated the area three months ago. (Kyodo)

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Kobe high schoolers visit tsunami-hit Ishinomaki school

OSAKA, Japan - Students of Maiko high school in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, stand in front of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2014. They visited the school which lost many pupils in the March 2011 tsunami as part of an extracurricular activity at the high school offering a disaster prevention course, the only such course provided at a Japanese high school. (Kyodo)