DISATER PREVENTION AT HOME

Meals

Do not throw away the charcoal left behind after a bonfire. If you put wire mesh, steel sheet or iron rod on top and place the contents of the distributed packed meals wrapped in aluminum foil, you could enjoy a nice hot meal. Also,even if the water you have is not clean, you can boil it in a pan and use it for heating up food in sealed plastic bags. This is also a good way to have a nice meal. Charcoal is safer than bonfires.
(male,aged 17,Higashinada Ward)

I had somehow kept a lpt of disposable chopsticks that came with sushi packs. I used these to light fires and found them very useful in starting bonfires or charcoal fires.
(emale,aged 74 Higashinada Ward)

Because we had no water to waste, we put plastic food wrap on our dinner plates. We could throw away the wrap after our meal and thus avoide washing up.
(Female, Higashinada Ward)

I remember it rained about three days after the earthquake. At the time, all our family rushed out to lay all the containers we had out in the garden so as to collect rainwater. We used this water to wash the dishes after meals. Each time it rains, it always reminds me of this.
(Female, Chuo Ward)

Fire Deperment Advice
We often here that small portable cookers were very useful.In some cases, two of these were put side by side to put an iron hot plate on top for cooking, but this was extremely dangrous. If you put the cookers alongside eash otere, the gas cylinder of the cookers becomes sandwiched in the middle. There were some cases of the cylinder overheating and exploding.
We hope the public will not only think of convernience but also pay full attention to sufety.