Fig. 1.
Location of municipalities during the evacuation process from Futaba Kosei Hospital. The geographical relationships between the FDNPP and Sendai, Nihonmatsu, Fukushima cities and Futaba Town are depicted. The arrows with numbers show the transportation methods, evacuation routes and evacuation destination. Purple arrows indicate transportation by land on 12 March 2011. Blue arrows indicate transportation by helicopter provided by the JSDF on 12 March 2011. Orange arrows indicate transportation by helicopter provided by the JSDF on 13 March 2011. The details of each arrow are as follows: arrow 1, 53 ambulatory patients and 90 employees evacuated to Nihonmatsu City via Kawamata Village; arrow 2, 35 patients (not accompanied by staff) evacuated using a truck provided by the JSDF to an unknown destination (possibly an aged care facility in Namie Town?); arrow 3, 21 patients and 21 hospital employees evacuated to Nihonmatsu City by the JSDF helicopter; arrow 4, 12 patients and 25 hospital employees evacuated to Sendai City by the JSDF helicopter on 12 March; arrow 5, 7 patients and 9 hospital employees evacuated to Sendai City by the JSDF helicopter on 13 March; arrow 6, a combination of patients and employees evacuated in arrows 4 and 5 headed from Sendai City to Nihonmatsu City by the JSDF helicopter on 13 March.