Fire based on the US Air Force within Tokyo destroyed the financial service premises

All this night, the fire on the basis of the US Air Force ICOOT under Tokyo, where the premises of the representative office of the financial service of the Ministry of Defense were almost completely destroyed - about 3.7 thousand square meters. meters.

Even the next morning, on January 21, white smoke rises above the fire zone, the American military continues to fight the consequences of the emergency, ITAR-TASS reports.

The reasons for the fire are still not declared. However, the representative of the press service of the Jocot has already noticed that he did not have any information about the attack.

The fire arose on Tuesday evening, January 20. At first, the Americans tried to cope with him on their own, but then they turned to the Tokyo Fire Department, which directed nine cars to the fight against fire.

The base of the IOKOT is located in the south-west of the Tokyo Prefecture, it plays the role of the main transshipment point of the US Armed Forces in the Far East. There is the headquarters of the United States Armed Forces in Japan and the headquarters of the 5th American Air Army.

The base has a runway of 3.3 km long. The number of military personnel on the okot is about five thousand people, mainly an airfield, flight and staff personnel. About five thousand members of the military families live there.

For many years, Tokyo authorities have been returning to the return of at least part of the objects of that base for receiving civilian aircraft, since the Japanese capital has been suffering from the extreme overload of his two airports.