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Today, I'd like to write about Japanese fire volunteer. I was a member of fire-volunteer and had to fight against useless tradition, useless training and ill natured idiots. Even after my retirement, it is still too danger to write about what they do or think because as long as one lives in one town, critcize fire volunteer is fatal. You must be ignored in the society. So, please allow me to write in English. If you are non-Japanese person, you will just know how stupid country Japan is.

First, Japanese fire volunteer is useless in fire and accident. Most of Japanese city(I think all) have fire department and fire volunteer. It is defined by low to have two kinds of anti-fire section. Fire department is full time professional job and fire volunteer is on demand fire fighter. In Japan, houses had been built by wood and paper. So, they were terribly weak for fire. Once one a fire occurs, what fire fighters can do is not to fire another house, not fight against burning house. For one evidence, most of the Japanese castle have already burned down. Some of them was burned in war but some was not in war. People are so powerless. To save town, what fire fighters did in old time is crash burning house and next house. It needs lot of manpower and all people joined such action. There was almost no difference between fire department and fire volunteer in action and equipment.
After WW2, Japanese house become anti-fire structure and material. Today, house tends to stand still even after it was burned out and person died in the fire.
Is it safe for fire? No. New materials that is used for cost down and convenience for maintenance emit toxic gas and smoke when burning. To save lives, fire fighters must enter burning house with gas-mask. and anti fire wearings. But, fire volunteers do not have enough equipment and not well trained for such purpose. What they do in fire is just send water for fire department, traffic control and sometimes water next house not to fire by the heat of burning house. Well. it is still important job but not necessary of need large number of person. Fire department also has many branch and can do all thing by themselves alone. They fear fire volunteer being injured in fire than fire volunteer work in accident(well, it is important not to injured in fire). Fire volunteer becomes fashion.
Why still the government asks every city have fire volunteer? One reason is that in great disaster, fire department is not enough in number. Japan is full of earth quake and once big earth quake occurs, fire must occur too. But fire volunteer is not trained to act by themselves for they just obey fire department's command. Their equipment is also not suitable to suppress fire. And most important, they have poor communication tools. They still believe mobile phone can be available in big disaster and asks members to contact by phone. Needless to say, if electric system is down, mobile phone is out of service. In addition, phone system sometimes stops by accident and heavy use. Fire volunteers usually works in their office and factory. It is most important to built information system that is reliable in accident. Otherwise, even after fire volunteers gathers, they are at loss what to do, what to prepare. In 3.11, hundreds of fire volunteer died while fire department loss small number. Why such difference occurs? One is because no one can say dead fire volunteers were on their job as fire volunteer or not. They might died not in their job but by accident. But more important thing is fire department could escape because they have enough information when TSUNAMI arrives, I guess. Fire department staff carries a radio transceiver in a cell. Fire volunteer have only one in the car in one branch.
If earth quake occurs in inland, TSUNAMI is not probable but there are another problems. Most of the fire volunteer has fire engines that have a pump with no water tank. These car uses water from fire plug as a source of water.But fire plugs stops when big earth quake destroy tap water. There are also water tanks build underground but they are small in number and need long water lines to send water. If you have river and pond, you can make use of it but fire volunteers scarcely train to use natural water source.
Finally, I have to point out that fire volunteer in desidence also need help and can not act as fire volunteer at first. Some fire volunteers proudly says they worked as fire volunteers and did not work for family. Well, they might be good fire fighters. But they are also lucky because their family is not badly injured. I think all residents should prepare to big disaster and fire volunteer in that residents should not be counted.

It becomes too long so I'd like to finish writing now.

　・ブドウ出荷中。あまりに最後の最後で駄目になったのが多くて凹む。今年はこれまでで一番管理が上手く行ってたのに・・・葉っぱだって１００％残ってるし消毒他も上手く行って病気房もほとんど無いのに、日焼けやしなびで駄目になっているのが非常に多い。肩房を落として使えるのもあるが、基本的には山羊の餌である。

　・銃の所持許可取ると、いろんな人から「装薬銃買いなよ」と言われる。装薬銃というのは空気銃に対して火薬を使う銃の事で、最初に所持出来るのは散弾銃なので、つまり散弾銃にしなよという事である。空気銃は非力という問題もあるし、競技射撃の人はもちろん散弾が主なんだが、大物相手だと散弾持ちが複数いると猟がしやすいとかあるのかと思う。でも私は罠も持ってるので、大物は罠でいいし、止め刺しだったら上手い人はハンマーでやってたりする。猪だと無理だろうけど、うちの猟場に猪はいないし。

　・散弾だと口径は主に１２番と２０番（と希に４１０番）がある。規格上はもっとあるのだが、実際に玉や銃が流通しているのはこれらで、ほとんどが１２番と言っていいかも知れない。１２番はメジャーだし弾も安いのだが、重くて反動があり、弾が重い分命中精度に難がある（スラッグの場合）。２０番は散弾側から作られた物もあれば、ライフル側から作られたモデルもあり、初速が速く低伸弾道なので命中精度は１００ｍ程度だとライフルと変わらないほどあるそうで、軽量な事もあり人気がある。４１０番は完全にライフルベースの散弾で、あまりに弾が小さいので散弾として使うのはかなり威力や範囲が厳しいらしい。実際弾を見ると、インクの交換カートリッジみたいだ。口径は１２番が１６．８㎜、２０番が１５．６㎜で、４１０番は１０，４㎜しかない。しかし、例えば米軍の標準的な個人用小銃のＭ１６系銃弾は５．５６㎜しかない。４１０番ですら７．６２㎜より大きく、２０番に至っては１２．７㎜（５０口径）より大きい。

　・ただ、１２番使用者に言わせると２０番は弾が高いらしい。調べた限りだと、確かに１２番は５０円とか７０円でクレー用のは出ているが、２０番はサボット弾とかしか分からず、それらは２００円とか５００円とかしていた。まあ１２番でもサボット弾は同じぐらいしているので、物理的な資材の必要量の割に高い（当然流通量もあるだろうが）と言えるかも知れない。もっとも別のサイトを見ると、日本国内での銃弾の値段がとても高いという事が書かれていて、特に軍用銃弾は馬鹿みたいに安いのだそうだ。まあ、軍隊だと精度より物量な面もあるだろうし、大量に備蓄しておくので、その廃棄品が払い下げされて流通するという要素もあるみたいだ。って事は軍用銃弾を使う銃はとても安い弾が手に入る？とも思う。５．５６㎜はあまりメジャーではないし（てか猟銃では聞かない）、威力的にやや弱いかという話しだが、７．６４×５１㎜ＮＡＴＯは民生用の．３０８ウィンチェスターだそうで、共用出来るそうな。多分この弾ならストックも充分にあるだろうし、それだけ払い下げもあるはず。まあ、日本だとライフル弾は異常に高いらしいので、そういうのは輸入されてないだろうけど。