It's a way to be prepared for the worst, so we practice lockdowns, fire drills and evacuations.
The Oregon National Guard has been called out in many areas to help with rescue operations and evacuations, Davidson said.
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We also have international health insurance covering medical emergencies and evacuations.
The Afghan troops remain heavily dependent on the coalition for air support and medical evacuations in areas where the Taliban and other militants live among the population and often enjoy local support.
Folks were leaving two and three days prior to the both voluntary and mandatory evacuations.
The area is thinly populated and no evacuations have been ordered, the Coast Guard spokesman said.
The days of false alarms and panicked evacuations from New York towers were not yet over.
The blaze has moved through forests and neighborhoods, forcing thousands of evacuations and leaving a trail of destruction.
This flooding disrupted transportation, business, and government operations and created public safety concerns that necessitated voluntary and emergency evacuations.
Johnson said the disaster will most likely focus more attention on the design of exits and passageways for safe and efficient evacuations.
About 300 National Guard troops will be used along the Massachusetts coast to help with flooding and possible evacuations, agency spokesman Peter Judge said.
Unusually dry, warm and windy weather helped trigger a rash of wildfires across the region Monday, causing traffic and transit problems, consuming hundreds of acres of forest in South Jersey and forcing evacuations on Long Island.
Suspicious parcels, reported bomb threats and seemingly odd pieces of mail prompted evacuations and emergency alerts from Washington to Arizona to Michigan.
There were also a number of medical evacuations and the air lift of a bull injured on a farm.
School children study World War II, but they usually learn about the evacuations and the Blitz, which affected many millions.
It worsened this week, forcing local evacuations and eventually affecting European airspace.
Suggestions include buying more police boats, developing a system to track patients after hospital evacuations and lining up more generators, boilers and electrical repair gear.
Those on Salisbury Plain admit that the Afghan army will still need help in building their own capacity in medical evacuations and treatment, surveillance and other "enablers".
Dr Okal has used this technology to identify tsunamis caused by landslides (ie, the sort most likely to be dangerous, and thus require evacuations to be organised).
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The country's national emergency authorities also put in place a tsunami alert for the coastal area near where the earthquakes hit, and authorities ordered evacuations of some coastal areas.
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Tuesday said evacuations and preparation prevented a repeat of Katrina, which flooded New Orleans and killed more than 1, 800 people in 2005.
The staff at Memorial Hospital have said that after the storm they felt abandoned, that they worried about the sporadic evacuations and that they feared looters, some of whom they watched break into a nearby credit union.
Dr. Yamashita, of Fukushima Medical University, said that, though radiation exposure for the general population has likely been low, evacuations and fear of radiation could lead to problems such as increased consumption of alcohol and stress-related illnesses.
"What it will enable us to do is, taking into account all of the best data that we have, make decisions about evacuations and other measures at a level that is a bit more refined, " Caswell Holloway, the deputy mayor for operations, told reporters Friday at City Hall.
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Residents of several communities, including the city of San Diego, were allowed to return home Wednesday and Thursday, but more evacuations were ordered -- the latest covering the communities of Lake Henshaw and Mesa Grande and the La Jolla Indian Reservation in San Diego County.
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We're running additional evacuations, and will continue to do so in the days ahead.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sought to reassure folks, saying nothing like Sandy's surge was expected and stressing that no evacuations were being ordered, as they were before the superstorm.
He urged residents to fill up their cars, stockpile three days' worth of food and water, and refill prescriptions in case evacuations become necessary.
Elsewhere in the West, firefighting crews in New Mexico battled wildfires that have blackened thousands of acres and threatened homes and buildings, spurring numerous evacuations.
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