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Flames over a row of roofs.
Also known as: Fire pictogram Japan, Conflagration symbol Japan
Marks an evacuation site as suitable for a large urban fire.
Marks a site designated as suitable for evacuation from a large fire.
Contexts: Public information
Is a hazard the Japanese planning system takes far more seriously than most, because a post-earthquake conflagration through close-built timber housing is what killed most of the dead in 1923 and a great many in 1995; the broad evacuation grounds in Japanese cities were laid out for this and not for the shaking.
Contexts: Public information
A square panel carrying several flame shapes rising above a line of small pitched roofs.
One of the eight marks in the set.