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What is an Emergency Evacuation?

April 26, 2017emergency evacuation public safety

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What is an Emergency Evacuation?

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An emergency evacuation is a rapid mass removal of people from a dangerous environment to a safer space. Ideally, all of the people at risk will be removed and taken to safety, typically through a variety of means. The term may be used to refer to evacuating people from a single structure, or to the evacuation of people from an entire town or region. Emergency evacuations are undertaken for reasons of public safety, because officials believe that it would be dangerous for people to remain where they are.