evacuation

Example Sentences

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“My house was inside the evacuation order and I had to start flying my children out as fast as I could from L.A.,” she says of her La Cañada Flintridge home, which survived.

From Los Angeles Times

In the Zaporizhzhia stud farm, the evacuations continued, with over a dozen transports already carried out.

From Barron's

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Thursday that trafficked foreign nationals forced to carry out scams in Cambodia were "now exposed to further risk by the fighting", and called for their evacuation.

From Barron's

“The L.A. fires were such a severe event, including not only smoke, but also evacuation and substantial stress in the population, that effects may have lingered longer,” Casey said.

From Los Angeles Times

County to issue timely and precise evacuation alerts — first to too few people in Altadena and then to too many — shocked emergency management experts across the country.

From Los Angeles Times