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YAMAGATA, Japan — Some are stuck in their homes, fearful of radiation, heeding government warnings to stay indoors, cut off without electricity or phone service. Others want to leave but have no gasoline. Still more, those whose homes were ruined wait helplessly for evacuation at crowded shelters.
All face dwindling supplies of heating fuel, food, and water.
A week after the earthquake and tsunami devastated their communities, the plight of the thousands still stranded in areas near the stricken reactors — many too old or infirm to move — has underscored what residents say is a striking lack of help from the national government to assist with the evacuation of danger zones or the ferrying of supplies to those it has urged to stay inside.
Instead, the task has fallen to some local governments and even private companies and organizations that have made limited but heroic efforts to help those left behind. Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless along coastal communities, and the search for bodies has been halted in the evacuation zone.
Can we stop panicking now and HELP THESE PEOPLE...???
Residents reached by telephone said the order by the government to evacuate a 12-mile radius around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, as well as the request for those who live 12 to 18 miles away to stay indoors, has turned communities such as Minamisoma into ghost towns, populated mostly by the unwilling and the unlucky.