00:01Ryota Haga was in high school when the biggest earthquake ever recorded in Japan triggered a deadly tsunami and swept
00:08away his family home in the quiet northeastern town of Otsuchi in March 2011.
00:14Now the 31-year-old volunteer firefighter faces another natural disaster, this time a wildfire raging for a sixth day
00:22and threatening his community after burning through more than 1,600 hectares of forest as of Monday morning.
00:30It's about two or three large landings of the forest that were at the past and there were curators and
00:37dies and that they could kill the forest and it was only a forest for a while in the same
00:44time again.
00:45I've never been able to kill the forest before, and I feel the first thing I've been able to kill
00:52the forest.
00:52The elderly and body Ça will improve the best, and I have been able to figure I myself a bit,
00:58I feel like there's no road, but it's almost as close to the wall.
01:06My feet are a bit of pain.
01:09I feel like my body is getting tired.
01:16Volunteers from Otsuchi and professional firefighters from across Japan
01:21tackled the fires, deploying fire hoses and handheld pumps
01:25to extinguish flames which have burned for days on the mountain sides
01:28surrounding the rural fishing town.
01:30The same type of fire hoses 10 years, 20 years ago,
01:34when I became a member of the team,
01:38when I became a member of the team,
01:41when I became a member of the team,
01:46I'm really worried about how many of them are.
01:51Some 1,400 firefighters from across Japan
01:54and Self-Defense Force helicopters have been deployed so far,
01:58with no prospects yet of bringing the blaze under control
02:01despite some scattered rain forecast on Monday.
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