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  • 11 hours ago
Rain offers relief in Japan's worst wildfire in 50 years

Wet weather brings some relief to northern Japan, battling its worst wildfire in half a century, in a region that had been experiencing record-low rainfall. The blaze around the northern city of Ofunato in the Iwate region has raged for more than a week, killing one person and forcing nearly 4,000 residents to evacuate their homes.

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Transcript
00:00Rain sounds
00:24It's been 85 years since I've been here, so it's my first time seeing it.
00:51I can clean up after a tsunami, but I can't clean up after a fire.
00:59It's the scariest.

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