Sherri Shepherd

Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.

American Entertainer

Jesmyn Ward

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

American Novelist

Anne Perry

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

British Novelist

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?

Indian Author

Ingrid Newkirk

It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

British Activist

Nina Bawden

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

British Writer

Heinrich Boll

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.

German Writer

Michael Chertoff

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.

American Public Servant

Paul Watson

I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

Canadian Environmentalist

Yoko Ono

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

American Artist

Use 'evacuate' to emphasize the urgency of leaving a place to avoid danger or harm.

Safety First

'Evacuate' implies leaving is not a choice, but a necessity for safety.

Not Voluntary

Typically involves groups of people or entire communities, not single individuals.

Large-Scale Actions

'Evacuate' is used when referring to rescue operations in emergencies.

Emergency Response

Focuses on moving people, not objects, from danger.

Person-Specific

This action is done carefully to ensure safety of those being evacuated.

Care Required

In medical contexts, 'evacuate' means to remove contents from a body part.

Technical Term

Medical 'evacuation' is a precise action, often requiring professional skills.

Controlled Process

 know that it was over there the blast and you're going this way as long as you're going across crosswise to the wind once you're out and evacuating you want to keep as much of your skin your mouth and nose covered as long as that covering doesn't impede you moving and getting out of there and finally you

Surviving a nuclear...

 near as these people will ever get to being in a plane crash without leaving the ground so we just had an evacuation if this were a real-life horrible situation how would people have fared what everyone have survived probably not they didn't follow instructions if it had been a worst-case

People Don’t Listen PIPE...

 But speak to your girls of this wartime, a year preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes, laced caskets with flags, evacuated the crime scene of the club, caterwauled in the street, laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen,

Chinaka Hodge: What will...

 standards that inform the design and construction of buildings to make them more resistant to fire and to protect the people that occupy them. We installed fire alarms so that we could detect and pinpoint fires in buildings as soon as they occur and alert people of the need to evacuate.

Jennifer B. Nuzzo: 3...

 the state that I live in, forced hospitals to evacuate patients, suspend surgeries and critical care. Others faced power outages, many reported destruction of the entire stocks of vaccines and medical supplies. And similar experiences have been documented in other parts of the world.

Shweta Narayan: It's...

 They're called self-settlers. And almost all of them are women, the men having shorter lifespans in part due to overuse of alcohol, cigarettes, if not radiation. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated at the time of the accident, but not everybody accepted that fate.

Holly Morris: Why stay...

 they helped open the door to evacuating tens of thousands of injured civilians to get them urgent medical care in Jordan and in fact the collaboration had to be kept secret because of a fear of retaliation from the Libyan regime and today is the first time it's ever been

The ecological structure...

 of the personal loss these people had felt. As they had run from the wave, and for their lives, absolutely everything they had, everything had to be left behind. At the end of my first week there, I found myself helping out in an evacuation center in the town.

Becci Manson:...

 they would be prepared for the worst. In fact, the airline industry has gone as far as to create fuselages of simulation environments, because of the importance of the team coming together. This is an evacuation drill simulator.

Lifelike simulations...

 the ants start an evacuation moving the nest to higher ground it's women and children first as the ants carry the queen