are fully extinguished. the town is devoid of people. the sound of alarms, crushed and activated in the quake, adds to the eeriness. it s not known if people are trapped inside these splintered homes. rescue teams have struggled to get here. these search dogs only arrived here this morning. there has been a huge delay in searching for survivors, and the teams are now going one by one to each of these collapsed wooden houses to search for them. but they don t know if anyone is inside here. their searches aren t based on any information, they ve told us. this resident has come to tell the rescuers she thinks her husband s aunt is inside. translation: she s 95 and can t move much. l we ve looked in all the evacuation centres, but can t find her.
these search dogs only arrived here this morning. there has been a huge delay in searching for survivors, and the teams are now going one by one to each of these collapsed wooden houses to search for them. but they don t know if anyone is inside here. their searches aren t based on any information, they ve told us. this resident has come to tell the rescuers she thinks her husband s aunt is inside. translation: she s 95 and can t move much. l we ve looked in all the evacuation centres but can t find her. but the dog can t get far enough in. the team must move on. time is too critical. here, some certainty there is a woman inside, but alive? they don t know. the window to find people is closing. jean mackenzie, bbc news, and wajima injapan.
only arrived here this morning. there has been a huge delay in searching for survivors, and the teams are now going one by one to each of these collapsed wooden houses to search for them. but they don t know if anyone is inside here. their searches aren t based on any information, they ve told us. this resident has come to tell the rescuers she thinks her husband s aunt is inside. translation: she s 95 and can t move much. l we ve looked in all the evacuation centres but can t find her. but the dog can t get far enough in. the team must move on. time is too critical. here, some certainty there is a woman inside, but alive? they don t know. the window to find people is closing. jean mackenzie, bbc news, and wajima injapan. separately, japanese
it s not known if people are trapped inside these splintered homes. rescue teams have struggled to get here. these search dogs only arrived here this morning. there has been a huge delay in searching for survivors, and the teams are now going one by one to each of these collapsed wooden houses to search for them. but they don t know if anyone is inside here. their searches aren t based on any information, they ve told us. this resident has come to tell the rescuers she thinks her husband s aunt is inside. translation: she s 95 and can t move much. l we ve looked in all the evacuation centres but can t find her. but the dog can t get far enough in. the team must move on. time is too critical. here, some certainty there is a woman inside, but alive? they don t know. the window to find
more army personnel, doubling the number of forces to 2000, they are also sending in sniffer dogs and the government says they have rescued 18 more people since yesterday, but still, very challenging circumstances all around and even with help from other countries, the us for example has offered help, it is going to be challenging to reach those people in time, we re more than 48 hours now since the earthquake first struck so we re losing that window of time in order to rescue the maximum number of people. very briefly, what is happening to the people who have been displaced so far? many of them have been in evacuation centres, that is part of the government s preparedness for these types of situations. people often know where they can go to seek shelter.