Abstract
This paper seeks to investigate fires caused by the disaster waste after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on 11 March, 2011, was the largest earthquake in recent Japanese history and resulted in the generation of large amounts of disaster waste. As a result, many ‘outdoor storage areas’ were established within disaster zones, and more than 40 fires occurred in these storage areas within the Tohoku region. These fires were believed to have been caused by heat generation of fermentation. An investigation was conducted focused on such fires and excluding fires from other causes. Moreover, disaster waste items that ferment were collected from fire locations and conducted a series of experiments using combinations of various thermal- and gas-analysers, to identify the fire-risks related to heat- and gas-generation. The results revealed that the heat generated during fermentation of the organic disaster waste most likely acts as a trigger causing the fires.
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