When he refused to leave the mountain despite the evacuation order, some villagers believed that he knew they would be safe and also refused to leave, said villagers now in the evacuation camp.
Remote evacuations from a mountain side are not available.
A wildfire raged through almost 600 acres west of the city today, prompting the authorities to call for the evacuation of 200 mountain homes.
Scientists reinstated the alert to its highest level in the afternoon, just before sirens began blaring across the mountain, setting off the instant evacuation of thousands of villagers in trucks and cars and on motorbikes.
In 146 incidents involving mountain rescue teams last year no evacuation was required.
In this specific case, because of the intense monitoring of the Nordnes mountain, this time available for evacuation will be longer than just some minutes.
In New Mexico strong heat and winds fanned the so-called Dog Head Fire which more than tripled in size to around 16,000 acres by Thursday night, forcing evacuations in the Manzano mountains southeast of Albuquerque.
The massive storm, which produced baseball-sized hail in some parts, prompted an evacuation at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs as the area was pummeled with chunks of ice.
In a narrow wooded valley just inside the Fukushima evacuation zone, a cold mountain dusk is falling over the terraced plots where Genkatsu Kanno grew rice and vegetables for most of his life.
