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a shower to cool down their burnt bodies or just drinking the water. Onseeing this, we rushed to the hydrant. We drank a lot of water with a bowlshaped like an oyster shell.From Hijiyama Bridge to Tsurumi-chou, on the west side of KyoubashiRiver, there were no houses because the houses had fallen down to stop thefire. So we could see through Takeya-chou and Tanakamachi withoutanything barring our view. I saw the Takeya Elementary School buildingburning in flames. It was the school I had graduated from. The scene mademe very sad.Tsurumi Bridge, made of wood was covered with fire and smoke. Therewas a big willow tree to the sleeve of the bridge, and it was burnt and onlythe trunk was left. Beneath the tree a 2 or 3 year-old child was crying in hermother’s arms. The mother’s face was black and bleeding and she didn’tmove. We didn’t know if she was still alive or not. We could not afford to doanything for the child. Feeling sorry for them, we crossed the bridge. Oursenses became dull, holding unspoken feelings.The houses along the hill-side near Tamon-in only had a little damageand hadn’t fallen down. The hill seemed to have protected the houses fromthe damage of fire and collapsing.Around the entrance to Mt. Hijiyama, there were many people whowere going to evacuate to the mountain.Anyway we were very thirsty.When we passed near the Danbara-Ohata-cho streetcar stop, one of ussaid with a thirsty voice “Let’s have a break.” And we looked for a place to doso. Then we happened to find a broken hydrant and water was coming out ofit around the intersection at the west edge of Taisho Bridge. We dashed tothe ‘oasis’ very quickly to drink water.After that we went to Matoba area along the streetcar track. There werebig flames, so it was very hot for us to go through that area.Our burnt skin hurt extremely badly. After reaching the Koujin Bridge,the fires had ceased and we felt relieved.We saw a bridge-rail that had fallen down, maybe from the explosionand we then realized how strongly the wind of the explosion had blown. Thereal power of destruction made my ability to think much duller.My friend A whispered “Judging from this situation, there is no hope