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Wildfires broke out Wednesday (April 22) at two sites in the same town in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, prompting local authorities to urge over 1,000 residents to evacuate.

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00:01More than 1,800 people in northern Japan have been ordered to evacuate after wildfires
00:07broke out in the Kozuchi district of Otsuchi on Wednesday.
00:11Kyoto News Agency reported that the first blaze started in Otsuchi at around 1.50 p.m.,
00:17quickly spreading to nearby buildings and surrounding woodland.
00:20About 10 kilometers away, a second fire was later reported in the afternoon in a mountainous
00:26area of the Kirikiri district, according to police and other sources.
00:30The town authorities advised 1,077 residents from 566 households living near the second
00:38fire to evacuate.
00:39Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Minoru Kihara, said on Thursday that residents from about
00:45700 households in Otsuchi were also ordered to leave their homes after the fires burned
00:51through more than 150 hectares of forest and damaged seven buildings in the rural area.
00:57There have been no reports of casualties so far.
01:00The local weather observatory had earlier warned of dry conditions and strong winds in the area,
01:06which may have contributed to the rapid spread of the fires.
01:09has been aborne by the storm under the steam.
01:09In the last few years, the original newscast is the only one in the 80s.
01:13The ice coast of the storm had turned into the ice coast, which is a凍, but it was not
01:14in the 90s.
01:19Lately is the ice coast, but it is the number of heavy dogs,
01:19as the ice coast does not reach out on the ice coast.
01:19We will have the ice coast as it is in the water.
01:19The ice coast has got a lot of loveless in the snow.
01:19We will have the ice coast of the ice coast to the border.
01:20We will have the ice coast of the ice coast, but we will have to the ice coast.
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