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Despite the devastation hurricanes Katrina and Rita wrought on Louisiana in 2005, a large number of coastal residents still say they would refuse to evacuate if another hurricane zeroes in on the state, a Harvard University survey shows. “Even though the percentages of people not prepared or who wouldn’t evacuate are small, those numbers add up to the thousands in a metropolitan area like New Orleans,” said Tami Buhr of Harvard’s School of Public Health and one of the survey’s researchers. “That’s a lot of people still at risk.” The survey was conducted between May 27 and June 23 when...

Hurdles of language, mistrust addressed: A burgeoning Hispanic population has helped rebuild New Orleans during the past two and a half years. Now officials are coming to grips with the challenge of moving and finding safe refuge for that population should another hurricane threaten. Since Hurricane Katrina, as many as 14,000 Hispanic immigrants have arrived in New Orleans to provide muscle and skills for the recovery effort. Now civic groups as well as government officials say overcoming cultural and language barriers between emergency officials and Spanish speakers -- especially the undocumented -- has taken on new urgency.

China earthquake: 80,000 being evacuated from under dam By Richard Spencer in Beijing Last Updated: 1:24AM BST 28/05/2008 Attempts are being made to complete the evacuation of 80,000 Chinese below a natural dam formed by landslides in the Sichuan earthquake. Satellite images show how the Jian valley has filled with water after a landslide blocked the river's flow The blockage, on the Jian river above the devastated town of Beichuan, is one of many that formed when landslides were triggered by the quake two weeks ago. Almost 2,000 soldiers, armed with dynamite and using a mechanical digger landed by helicopter,...

Cars have been a huge part of our lives. We use them to get around anywhere. It might have been the best invention mankind came up with, but we all hate several common things about cars, such as the cost of gas prices and traffic. We think sometimes in our imagination how awesome it would be if cars had wings, so maybe one day we will fly through terrific! We also despise accidents, high insurance and drunk driving. Sometimes, I feel that we need other alternative means of transportation, such as a subway system in the state of Texas; maybe...

Plots by Communists to infiltrate America. The disintegration of borders and rural areas. Citizens mobilizing and rising up against government agencies and big business. It all sounds like the plot for a summer blockbuster, but it's something that could be happening in your own backyard. These were just a few of the topics addressed in the "How to fight the TTC" workshop, held Monday at the Pitser Garrison Civic Center in Lufkin. The conference served as an informational meeting aimed at informing citizens and local government officials how they can unite in trying to stop the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor project....

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The United Nations has evacuated most of its staff from Chad because of worries for their safety, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. "I am alarmed by the deteriorating security situation in the capital, N'Djamena, and elsewhere," he said. "We can no longer guarantee the safety and security of U.N. staff in Chad and we have evacuated, with the help of the French Government, most of the personnel into neighboring countries, in Cameroon and Gabon." Ban said he was leaving in place a small number of U.N. peacekeepers and other personnel in Chad's capital, and that the U.N. would do...

UCSD CAMPUS NOTICE University of California, San Diego OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR - BUSINESS AFFAIRS December 5, 2007 ALL AT UCSD (including UCSD Medical Center) SUBJECT: Evacuation of the School of Medicine There has been an evacuation of the School of Medicine buildings on the west campus and the School of Pharmacy as a precautionary measure for the safety of our campus community. We have been monitoring some threats and investigating a suspicious object that was found in the Leichtag Building. City and county police and other responders are working with us. Please avoid the area and check Blink...

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Seven helicopters airlifted workers from a burning North Sea oil rig amid high winds northwest of Scotland Sunday. More than half of the 159 people on the remote Thistle Alpha platform had been airlifted to neighboring platforms several miles away, CNN reported. The burning rig is about 227 miles northwest of Aberdeen - "just about as remote as it gets," said British Royal Air Force spokesman Michael Mulford. The helicopters and one Nimrod aircraft flew from Norway, RAF stations, British Coast Guard stations, and other oil rigs to assist in the evacuation, Mulford told...

Part of a Newark Liberty International Airport terminal was evacuated Saturday as authorities investigated a possible gas leak, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. People in a section of the airport's Terminal B noticed a strong odor around 11 a.m. that they thought smelled like natural gas, Port Authority spokesman Pasquale DiFulco said.

ATLANTA -- Emergency officials are on the scene of an incident/HazMat situation at the Science and Technology building at Georgia Tech. The incident took place on the second floor of the building. That building has been evacuated. Officials said there is one minor injury -- they are still determining if it's relation to the spill or the evacuation. HazMat crews are on the scene and entered the building just after 12:45 p.m. The type of chemical they are dealing with has not been determined. -snip-

Raging Calif. wildfires make 500K flee By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away. Unless the shrieking Santa Ana winds subside, and that's not expected for at least another day, fire crews say they can do little more than try to wait it out and react — tamping out spot fires and chasing ribbons of airborne embers to keep new fires from flaring. "If it's this big and...

SAN DIEGO -- With fire spreading quickly westward, San Diego County officials ordered the evacuation of a huge area east of Interstate 15 between Del Dios Highway and Highway 56 early Mon"This is the worst fire this county has ever seen -- worse than the Cedar Fire [of 2003]," Sheriff Bill Kolender said. At a news conference shortly after 6 a.m., officials said fires had spread dramatically overnight, whipped by fierce Santa Ana winds. They said fire had jumped Interstate 15 at Lake Hodges and was burning in parts of Rancho Bernardo. Because of the explosive and unpredictable nature of...

LOS ANGELES With the rampant wildfires surging across Southern California, many residences are being given little warning before being evacuated. Once you are told to evacuate, that is the time to leave immediately so that fire officials can do their jobs and not worry about your safety. But, there are things you can do before being evacuated that will assure that you leave your home with the things you care about most. Create for your family, and for each member individually, a check-list of all the things that you will need for a few days away from home. In addition,...

U.S. micromanaged Israeli evacuation Oversaw uprooting of small Jewish communities Posted: October 16, 2007 5:12 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – The evacuation the past few days of five makeshift Jewish communities in the West Bank was micromanaged behind the scenes by the U.S. government, WND has learned. Israeli police, backed by the Israel Defense Forces, clashed in recent days with Jewish activists and West Bank Jewish residents while destroying the five small outposts the government deemed illegal, because construction was not coordinated with proper housing authorities. The outposts, erected alongside existing legal West Bank Jewish...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007 – A veteran Air Force combat medic helped to transform the way wounded troops are treated and evacuated during a recent deployment to Afghanistan. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Mark A. DeCorte is participating in the Defense Department’s “Why We Serve” public-outreach program. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Tech Sgt. Mark A. DeCorte recalled the previous practice when unarmed battlefield medics were flown in to treat and evacuate injured servicemembers usually after an area had been cleared of the enemy. However, DeCorte emphasized, “When you have a wounded soldier on...

LONDON (AP) - Super spicy chili sauce being cooked at a London Thai restaurant sparked road closures and evacuations after passers-by complained that the smell was burning their throats, police said Wednesday. London Fire Brigade's chemical response team was called after reports that a strong smell was wafting from the restaurant in the heart of London's Soho district Monday afternoon, a Metropolitan police spokesman said, speaking anonymously in line with force policy. Authorities sealed off several premises and closed roads. The Times of London described shoppers coughing and spluttering as firefighters wearing special breathing masks sought the source of the...

SEATTLE -- The Washington state ferry Puyallup was evacuated Wednesday morning at Colman Dock in Seattle after a crew member found what they deemed to be a suspicious package on board. The 460-foot Puyallup had just been emptied of cars and passengers after arriving at Colman Dock from Bainbridge Island about 8 a.m. when the bag of sparklers was found behind the toilet in the disabled passenger stall in the men's restroom. Following a search and examination by State Patrol troopers, the 2,500-passenger, 202-vehicle ferry was cleared to resume service about 9 a.m. The Puyallup delay was the second ferry...

ABC News building evacuated in D.C. 16 minutes ago A building housing the Washington bureau of ABC News was evacuated Thursday because of a suspicious envelope containing a white powdery substance, District of Columbia authorities said. D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said there was no note or address on the small envelope. No one has reported any medical symptoms, he said. Firefighters and police were on the scene trying to determine whether the packet poses a threat, and the downtown building was evacuated as a precaution, Etter said.

Another abandoned backpack I'm guessing. Feel free to pull this - as I'm sure we're now averaging several of these a day.

About one in three people living in Southern coastal areas said they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community, up from about one in four last year, a poll released Tuesday shows. The survey found the most common reasons for not evacuating were the same ones that topped last year's Harvard University poll: People believe that their homes are safe and well-built, that roads would be too crowded and that fleeing would be dangerous. Slightly more than one in four also said they would be reluctant to leave behind a pet. Robert Blendon, the Harvard professor...

MUSKEGON COUNTY -- The village of Casnovia is being evacuated due to safety concerns, and emergency personnel urge people to stay away from the area. A car containing seven sticks of dynamite wired to an alarm clock is parked in the driveway of a residence in the village, North of the railroad tracks. The vehicle with the explosives inside is registered to the same person who owns the house it is parked near. ...more at link

This is all over Fox, but nothing else. Can any enlighten us?

Australia braced for more storms as nine die By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 1:42am BST 11/06/2007 Australians were braced for more atrocious weather this week after the worst storms in more than 30 years killed nine people and forced the evacuation of thousands of others in the East as swollen rivers cut off towns and farms. During three days of wild weather roads collapsed, cars were washed away with people still inside and a giant freighter was washed ashore by mountainous seas at Newcastle, north of Sydney. John Howard, the prime minister, called it "an immense disaster". The...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- One phase of the state's emergency evacuation plan is still not complete. A new report said the state has not hired any buses to help with an evacuation this hurricane season. According to the report, the state has received bids for the contract but has not decided if it will accept one or open a new round of bidding. The state-endorsed hurricane plan insists the buses will be there if needed.

New Orleans Weighs Evacuation Plans Thursday April 5, 2007 1:16 AM By CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With hurricane season less than two months away and memories of Katrina less than two years old, city leaders are still trying to sort out how they will evacuate residents this year if another storm approaches. Tourism leaders oppose using the convention center as a staging ground to evacuate the city's neediest, fearing it would hurt the travel economy by reviving images of the misery it harbored after Katrina hit Aug. 29, 2005. Their resistance poses a potentially serious...

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Japan, U.S. detail ROK evac plans / Countries to assist citizens in crisis The Yomiuri Shimbun The Japanese and U.S. governments have begun work to strengthen a cooperative system in the event of a contingency on the Korean Peninsula, including the creation of a plan to evacuate civilians of the two countries living in South Korea, sources said. According to the sources, the Japanese government is considering an evacuation plan that will oblige the nation to provide a temporary refuge for Americans evacuated from South Korea, while the plan would require the United States to help transport Japanese evacuees using...

Fox News just broke in with an alert. They said that a Brookline, Massachusettes elementary school was being "evacuted" (strange use of word) after several students became "violently ill".....Developing....

APEX, N.C. -- Authorities evacuated Apex residents and closed downtown streets late Thursday after a cloud containing chlorine gas spewed from a volatile industrial fire. Apex Town Manager Bruce Radford said a leak at the EQ North Carolina plant on Investment Boulevard sent several large plumes of chlorine gas into the air around 9 p.m. A large fire broke out at the plant afterward, with multiple explosions heard nearby. "This is the worst possible hazardous materials incident you could have," Radford said.

With the World Trade Center death toll shrinking to somewhere around 3,000, many hesitate to speak of a miracle or a success. But those are the words they are using when they remember that thousands of others got out alive before the towers collapsed. Many officials say the loss of life would have been many times higher if not for three factors: the timing of the attack, before the buildings had filled to their usual workday peak; emergency-evacuation improvements prompted by the 1993 terrorist bombing of the trade center; and the urgent reaction of workers, many of whom had been...

Short report... 20 being treated by Haz Mat in Van Nuys.

KEY WEST, Fla. - Visitors were ordered to leave the Florida Keys on Sunday because of the possibility that Hurricane Ernesto could threaten the island chain, emergency officials said. The Monroe County Emergency Management office told tourists with immediate plans to travel to the Keys to postpone their trips and ordered those already in the island chain to leave. All travel trailers and recreational vehicles also were ordered off the islands immediately.

Aer Lingus flight evacuated in Ireland,P. ROBERT BARR Associated Press LONDON - An Aer Lingus flight from New York with 239 passengers aboard was evacuated in Ireland Friday following a threat against the aircraft, airport authorities said. Aer Lingus Flight 112 was evacuated during a scheduled stop at 2:50 a.m. EDT at Shannon airport in western Ireland, said airport spokesman Eugene Pratt. The plane was en route to Dublin. The threat "came to a police station in Dublin, and referred to some explosives aboard that specific flight," Pratt said. No trace of explosives was found in the initial search.

Davis, WVa. (AP) - Suburban Washington, D.C., residents would likely jump in their cars and drive through the Eastern Panhandle, Maryland and Virginia in the event of a terror attack, a new West Virginia University survey shows. West Virginia officials say the survey underscores the need for a regional plan to handle an exodus of 6 million or 7 million people. Many of them plan to leave the region, either heading north, south or straight through the panhandle, said WVU assistant professor Brian Gerber, who worked on the survey. He presented the results Wednesday to more than 100 public safety...

Humanitarian Aid Organization Israel La'ad Comes to Kiryat Shomena Is the UN and the International Red Cross Discriminating Against Israel? By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Kiryat Shmona ---August 9.....The supermarket in Kiryat Shmona, Israel was empty. No lines, no loudspeakers announcing sales, no sound of cash machines opening and closing. Breaking this silence was the wail of air raid sirens as an endless line of shopping carts filled to the brim with everything from milk and cheese to washing detergent and shaving cream waited by one cash register. Driving in large, green and blue pickup trucks, flying Israel flags...

Americans pack Canadian rescue vessel Ship could be last ticket out of war zone, but only 49 Canadians show up to board Globe and Mail Mark MacKinnon July 27, 2006 TYRE, LEBANON — Taking advantage of a brief lull in the Israeli assault on this port city, a desperate crowd of foreign nationals, including 49 Canadians, escaped war-battered southern Lebanon Wednesday aboard a Canadian-chartered vessel. Canada had been expecting to pick up as many as 1,000 stranded Canadians, and officials could only guess why so few actually turned up. Some may already have fled by land or remained in the...

Senate minority Leader Reid (D-NV) and House minority Leader Pelosi (D-CA) have submitted bicameral legislation to protect the weakest among us from any peril, anywhere in the world, at any time. The legislation, coined “The No Dummy Left Behind Act” will mandate the use of US military assets as well as provide authority to commandeer commercial craft to provide for the prompt evacuation/rescue of US citizens no matter what they did to get themselves into their present situation. The legislation mandates a 48 hour limit for the evacuations, regardless of location or circumstances. After the 48 hour limit, the legislation...

ALARM - the American evacuated last leave Lebanon BEIRUT - the last Americans wishing to leave Lebanon in prey to violence left the wearing of Beirut Wednesday evening in direction of Cyprus, indicated to AFP official American.

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WASHINGTON, July 25, 2006 – The Defense Department evacuated 957 U.S. citizens from Lebanon to Cyprus yesterday aboard the contracted cruise ship Orient Queen, bringing the total to 12,870 since the crisis in Lebanon began July 16, DoD officials said today. Also, DoD airlifted the first humanitarian supplies promised to those in the war-torn country, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Three helicopters delivered three kits of medical supplies to Red Cross personnel. Each of the three medical kits has enough medicine and supplies to meet the needs of 10,000 people for three months. Seven other kits have arrived in Cyprus...

WASHINGTON — A leading Arab-American advocacy group has sued the U.S. government, claiming that it failed to protect American citizens from the fighting in Lebanon. The lawsuit, filed Monday on behalf of about 30 American citizens by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, alleges that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not take all possible steps to secure the safety and well being of U.S. citizens when fighting erupted between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas. The committee is asking the U.S. District Court in Detroit to order the U.S. government to request a cease fire and to...

You could sense that, in the evacuation from Lebanon, much of Canada's media thought it had another Walkerton or Katrina on its hands. The Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV and others were positively salivating over what they saw as an opportunity to sting yet another conservative government for not caring enough about a public crisis. So they hustled reporters and camera crews to Larnaca, Cyprus and Mersin, Turkey and gleefully began beaming back to Canadian readers and viewers the accounts of disgruntled evacuees hopping mad that Ottawa had not rescued them immediately, on the very day they decided to leave...

BEIRUT (CP) - Big ships bolstered efforts to ramp up the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon on Sunday, with officials hoping to have their most productive day yet. More than 2,000 Canadians were expected to leave in Ottawa's slowly growing effort to move tens of thousands of Canadians out of the strife-torn country. Some 4,400 Canadians had left through Saturday. At Canada's evacuation centre in a borrowed dance hall adjacent to Beirut's port, hundreds of exhausted people sat quietly eating snacks and waiting for their turn to board a boat. Around them, children used seat cushions for pillow fights and...

American Navy sailors use a military radio as American citizens stand on board an LCU (Landing Craft Utility) at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 21, 2006, to be taken to the USS Trenton, which will evacuate 2,000 Americans to Cyprus. The United States prepared to ship about 5,000 Americans from Beirut Friday to nearly complete the evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon as the international exodus reached a peak. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)An American Navy sailor carries an American girl as they board an LCU (Landing Craft Utility) at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 21, 2006, as...

Freerepublic Exclusive: Photo Diary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In port prior to boarding -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scenes from the muster point where evacuees check in and board buses to the Orient Queen.     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glimpse of Safety --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the bus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bus ride to the Beirut port from the muster point near the Embassy.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In port prior to boarding -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buses arrive at Beirut port, Orient Queen is in the background. British helicopters arrive, land, take on evacuees from buses, and then depart.       Lebanese soldier providing port security lights up a cigarette. Lebanese navy (both ships!)...

OTTAWA- Despite media reports highlighting complaints and frustration about Canada's efforts to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Lebanon, two-thirds of Canadians give Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government a passing grade for its handling of the crisis, says a new opinion poll. The Ipsos Reid survey of 1,023 people, conducted on Thursday night on the Internet for CanWest News Service and Global National, found 66% of respondents were satisfied when asked about the government's response to "the largest evacuation of Canadian citizens in Canada's history." "I think Canadians are looking at this and saying, 'This is a war zone,' "...

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2006 – Air Force C-17 Globemaster III crews assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron operating in Southwest Asia have added another mission to their resume, providing humanitarian civil assistance to the effort to evacuate Americans from Lebanon. Airlift operations have responded quickly to the urgent needs in the Middle East, supporting U.S. citizens evacuating from Lebanon to Cyprus, U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials said. The 816th EAS is flying water and meals, as well as essential personnel and equipment, to Royal Air Force Base Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. In the first four...

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2006 – Military aircraft and sea vessels will evacuate more than 4,000 Americans from Lebanon today, DoD officials said. Officials expect the USS Trenton, the USS Whidbey Island and the contract carrier Rahmah to carry around 4,200 American citizens to safety, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Gary Keck said. The Navy ships will carry evacuees to Cyprus, and the Rahmah will carry roughly 1,400 Americans to Mersin, Turkey. Cypriot officials said they expect roughly 60,000 evacuees of all nationalities in the country, and the evacuation is straining its resources. Turkey has offered the seaport of Mersin as an...

Whiners: Find your own way out of Beirut After being rescued from war zone, a little gratitude would be nice The Edmonton Journal Fri 21 Jul 2006 Page: A18 Section: Opinion Byline: Lorne Gunter Aw, the boat ride was too long, was it? And you say it was too hot? There was no doctor on board, either? And the departure was delayed. And the port was chaotic. And too little food and water had been laid in. And some of you had to sleep on the floor!? Oh, the indignity of it. To listen to the whining and carping...