Sentence examples for evacuated about from inspiring English sources

The seventh and eighth floors of Macy's flagship store in Herald Square were evacuated about 4 30 p.m. yesterday after a clothing rack caught fire in the children's department on the seventh floor, a store spokeswoman, Elina Kazan, said.

Rescue workers evacuated about 120 people from buildings in Sunset Park last night after burning electrical cables caused carbon monoxide levels to shoot up in their homes, the authorities said.

In Nicaragua, officials evacuated about 5,000 people, while 3,000 troops were mobilized to assist in the aftermath of the storm.

Prior to the storm's development, several oil and gas companies removed unneeded workers from offshore oil platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico; Shell Oil Company evacuated about 700 employees, while Noble Energy removed its workforce of about 300 people from two oil rigs.

The authorities evacuated about 800,000 people, one of the largest such evacuations in India's history.

They found more explosives, evacuated about 500 people from the surrounding area and made one arrest.

Civil defence authorities in Mariana said they were evacuating about 600 people to higher ground from the village of Bento Rodrigues, about 7km (just over 4 miles) beneath the dam that burst, which was flooded as a result of the accident.

In Bergen County, the police began evacuating about 3,000 people from their homes around 2 a.m.

Still, he said, emergency responders were able to evacuate about 100 people as the areas along the beach flooded.

The Chinese government moved to evacuate about 2,900 of its estimated 30,000 workers from Libya, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The municipal authorities were compelled to evacuate about 2,000 people from nearby apartment blocks, at great expense.