fire brigade; fire company
hidden room; secret chamber
scrap wood; waste wood; waste; waste material; scrap material
the Building Standards Act
to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
ground; crust (earth); foundation (building, etc.); base; constituency; power base
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
to facilitate; to make easy; to simplify
ruins of a fire; fire-devastated area
(only) one option; one possible choice
looter; thief at the scene of a fire; someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime
rebar; (iron) reinforcing bar; reinforcing steel; reinforced concrete
a line; a streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident); (arch.) the same logic
simmer; bubble out; flow out
torch (made of pine, bamboo, reed, etc.); flambeau; torchlight
to continue to rain or snow
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)
an inch ahead; the immediate future
to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)
underground; subterranean
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
bar set in a horizontal position; horizontal bar
to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
to fall on one's backside
heavyweight (esp. boxing); heavyweight division
to shake; to wave; to swing; to sway
weight; body weight; importance; weight; emphasis
to crawl towards; to creep up to
(Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics
long (time); longstanding; for a long time