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Make sure employees are aware of their responsibilities in an emergency and know exit routes and evacuation plans for a building.
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Some of the 200 firefighters on the scene are providing protection for nearby neighborhoods, but there are no evacuations.
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And in February, protesters were cleared from the Oceti Sakowin Camp; a reported 46 arrests were made over the course of the four-hour evacuation.
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Officials first announced the evacuation of one building, then expanded it to five before reducing it to four.
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That spurred a mass last-minute evacuation, which jammed up traffic on many major highways including Interstate 65, according to the weather service.
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The tenants were essentially living on the top of a highly inflammable firetrap, one in which mass evacuation was impossible, as was evidenced when a few of victims filmed their last moments with their phones.
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Several other fires were burning around the Southwest, including one in Arizona that forced the evacuation of two subdivisions northeast of Payson on Thursday evening.
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A fire Tuesday at Colonial Cleaners forced the evacuation of several other Thornapple Plaza tenants.
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First Known Use of evacuation
14th century
Medical Dictionary
evacuation
playMedical Definition of evacuation
1: the act or process of evacuating
2: something evacuated or discharged
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