The steps toward evacuation were the first at the White House since the Sept. 11 hijackings and reflected the continuing high state of anxiety over possible attacks.
Aleksandr I. Shumilin, a regional analyst and a foreign correspondent, said that Russian leaders had avoided openly taking steps toward evacuation until now, to avoid signaling that Russia was scaling back its support for Mr. Assad, but that they also risked public anger if Russians became targets of violence in Syria.
Such evaluation is focusing efforts toward evacuation, transportation, health, medicine, pollution, emergency medical care, triage, asset staging, chemical, biological defense practices, and community-wide response to populations.
Foreign governments took varying approaches toward the evacuation of their citizens in Japan.
Foreign governments have taken varying approaches toward the evacuation of their citizens.
When I was done, the truck headed slowly toward the evacuation point under Interstate 10, and Alladio and I returned for Lionel Petrie.
Mr. Lang tried to remain focused on helping people amid the mayhem and guiding people with a bullhorn toward an evacuation route.
Company C of the First Battalion, Ninth Cavalry, unimaginably hot and short of water, took over the substation on its way toward an evacuation of as many as 25 Iraqi civil defense soldiers, trapped during several hours of insurgent fire off the narrow, treacherous alleyways of old Baghdad.
He cranks the wheel and bolts back south on Highway 63, toward an evacuation camp in the opposite direction, where oil and gas workers usually live.
Thousands of Miami residents are among more than 6.3 million Floridians who have been ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Irma charges toward the state ― potentially the largest evacuation in U.S. history.
