The word “evacuating” is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used when talking about people or animals leaving an area due to danger, such as during an emergency evacuation. For example, "The fire department issued an evacuation order and everyone started evacuating the building."
A police spokesperson said the quick action of hotel staff and police officers in evacuating people from the premises had "undoubtedly helped to prevent a tragedy".
Authorities immediately locked down the venue, evacuating the 200 participants at the event, including the rightwing Dutch politician Geert Wilders, and sealing off large areas including a nearby shopping mall.
Australian Capital Territory Policing said they followed standard procedures in evacuating Dfat's headquarters, the RG Casey Building, after receiving a report of a suspicious package in the canteen at about 1.45pm.
Then we were queueing up for another rollercoaster and an air ambulance flew over and news started filtering through and all the Alton Towers staff were evacuating the area".
British transport police (BTP) were evacuating stranded passengers stuck outside the south London station on Thursday, while water was passed to commuters still stuck in sweltering temperatures on board.
"What I am very reluctant to do is to direct Australian personnel into Ebola hot spots when we don't have any means of effectively evacuating such personnel back to Australia and we have no commitments from other countries to treat them there either.
India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has so far dodged Sri Lanka's requests for help in evacuating its troops from Jaffna and said no to military assistance.
As interior minister, Mr Sarkozy played the tough guy: putting illegal immigrants on the plane home, evacuating clandestine squats and clamping down on prostitution.
Nearly one million people, a fifth of the population, have been uprooted says the United Nation refugee programme and several African nations have begun evacuating their nationals.
A group of Georgian non-governmental organizations went further, arguing that the police did too little to protect the rally itself, and focused instead on evacuating those under threat.
In the ensuing confusion Mr Izetbegovic was released but shooting in Dobrovoljacka Street began as the convoy of Yugoslav troops, shepherded by the UN, began evacuating the city.
