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disaster area
noun as in area affected by a general disaster
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On May 2, the day President Bush declared Los Angeles a disaster area, Mayor Bradley announced the formation of Rebuild LA, entrusting the fifty-four-year-old businessman Peter Ueberroth, a resident of Orange County, with directing the program.
From Time
We request everybody outside of the disaster area to refrain from hoarding gasoline, light diesel, and heavy fuel oil.
From The Daily Beast
The actual command post had not been established, but let me better explain a command post by a disaster area, like a fire.
From Project Gutenberg
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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