Tokyo firefighters conducted disaster drills and performed traditional acrobatics on ladders Sunday in a ceremony in Koto Ward to mark the beginning of the new year.
About 2,500 firefighters took part in the Tokyo Fire Department’s ceremony, which saw 140 fire trucks mobilized to cover a mock fire in a building with various businesses and a rescue mission at a building destroyed by an imaginary earthquake.
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