Over 1,000 residents were told to evacuate their homes in southwestern Japan as a wildfire continued to rage on Tuesday (March 25), while firefighters battled to tame the blaze.
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00:00Over 1,000 residents were told to evacuate their homes in southwestern Japan as a wildfire
00:08continued to rage on Tuesday, while firefighters battled to tame the blaze.
00:14The fire, which started on Sunday in the city of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture, is estimated
00:20to have destroyed at least 214 hectares of land.
00:24Dry weather was expected to continue in the city of Imabari on Tuesday.
00:30A separate wildfire that also started on Sunday in Okayama Prefecture in southwestern Japan
00:36destroyed 250 hectares of land and damaged six buildings, but stopped spreading the following
00:42morning.
00:44Firefighters and Japan's Self-Defense Force helicopters were working to extinguish the
00:48fire in Okayama on Tuesday.