Photo Journal: A helping hand

An elderly resident is accompanied by a local firefighter during a helicopter rescue mission in Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 4, 2016, after the municipal government issued an evacuation order to prepare for Typhoon Namtheun, now downgraded to a tropical depression. Of 113 Iwaizumi residents who wished to be evacuated on Sept. 4, only three actually boarded helicopters the following day, since many of the elderly townspeople feared that they would not be able to return home easily once they evacuated as roads were blocked due to landslides triggered by Typhoon Lionrock, according to the municipal government. (Mainichi)