. ♪ >>> local communities in japan often form volunteer fire brigades.hese intrepid groups play an important role in putting out fires and rescuing people. and they help out with other disasters. but membership has been shrinking and current volunteers are aging. the residents of one city have decided to do something about this and are working to nurture future firefighters. nhk world's jun okamoto reports. >> reporter: these elementary school children are members of the young firefighters club in western japan. the club was started as a local organization of the local fire brigade. today the children are using practice extinguishers as they train to put out fires. sixth-grader karin honda. >> translator: i want to be the fastest to put out the fire. >> reporter: karin's father is a volunteer at the local brigade. he set up the youth group after growing concern over lack of new members in his organization and the advancing age of current members. >> translator: we hardly have any young members. in particular, ones in their 20s. so we need young people to

the club was started as a junior organization of the local fire brigade. today the children are using extinguishers as they train to put out a fire. sixth grader karin honda is the club leader. >> translator: i want to be the fastest to put out the fire. >> her father is a volunteer at the local brigade. he set up the youth group after growing concern about the lack of new members in his organization. and the advancing age of current members. >> translator: we hardly have any young members, in particular, ones in their 20s, so we need young people to join us. if i can get my daughter to join, we'll have at least one daughter. >> she has no interest in fighting fires. >> translator: it looked really hard, so i didn't want to join. >> reporter: the firefighters club held its ceremony in august of this year and then its activities were underway. volunteers from the brigade train karin and her fellow youth members. throughout the training, karin realized the importance of being a leader. >> translator: since i'm the leader, i have a lot of things to do, such a

and so we are part of the local chapter and it is called the sf brigade, and we are one of the many group of volunteers of many different projects that they are working on. and we focused on the taking the data that steve and jessy have helped us really understand taking that, and making it much more accessible to the public. so, we are going to just walk you through, what we have created. and we will take some questions at the end, each one of us will present a little bit about the different parts of it. and you can ask us anything that you would like to, or would like us to explain more, or any ideas that you might have, at the very end that we could maybe try later on. and of course, we definitely want to thank boe, jessy and steve, because they have consistently come out to meet with us and really help us understand and make sense out of this data. we don't look at this data on a daily basis and so this is really and i am sure that you guys are fed up with hearing about the form 460 just as hearing about it was was is this thing? so they were very helpful, in helping us, sort of sort

carman dematto, fancy brigade back in 2006. local k9 officers who took place in the hunt for eric frein, back home sharing their experiences. frein captured at abandoned airport hang hangar thursday after spending 48 days on the run, charging him with first degree murder in the september 12th ambush in which corporal brian dixon was shot and killed. and trooper alex douglas was wounded. officers say frein's capture was a team effort. >> when there were sitings, we brought the dogs out, go from the last possible spot that he was seen, sends the dog on a track, see if he pick up on anything. >> always back of your mind that he could pick you off from anywhere, you wouldn't even see him, plus his traps he had set up, so two things you had to worry about. >> the officers were a part of septa's iron dog challenge. >> this event raises money to help support the family of plymouth township police officer brad fox, who was killed in a line of duty in 2012. >> well, also tonight day after virgin gal ac i can tourist spaceship crashed during t

and then there are the local, sort of chapters, they are called the brigades, which is volunteers from within the xhunlt community itself, who come in and we meet, every wednesday there. and then, we have the different projects and everybody gets to choose a project that they would like to become an ongoing part of. >> i see, at least the chapter aspiration is not necessarily to get to a funded level, or a contract, or a series of contracts that you would be providing this particular service, but just, this is your... >> this is a very different (inaudible). >> we appreciate it. >> it is a very different ethos, and i think that it is not... it is part of what you would probably have heard of as hacker culture. which is very much deeply have a deeply open data, and open government, and open force, and so this particular project is open force, which means that anybody else could take what we have built and reuse it somewhere else. and so, it is part of that ethos. it is not necessarily about like getting out there and making a bunch of money, although, code for america, does have an incu

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