Overview
- More than 50 firefighters entered Hinatayama around 6:30 a.m., with water spraying underway by 7:20 and helicopter operations from Yokohama and Tokyo beginning around 8:20.
- At least 600 square meters had burned on Hinatayama by 7:50 a.m., and authorities reported the fire was still spreading at that time.
- Isehara city opened evacuation shelters as a precaution, and police reported no nearby homes or injuries linked to the Kanagawa wildfire.
- Gunma prefecture said the Myogi Mountain fire that began on December 8 burned about 30 hectares and was suppressed by 11:50 a.m., with Self-Defense Forces helicopters assisting and no injuries or house damage confirmed.
- A separate residential blaze in Obu, Aichi, reported at 2:40 a.m., was extinguished after roughly three and a half hours, and two men remain in critical condition as police work to confirm their identities.