Some groups appeared to be part of an organized evacuation, and others were on their own.
The waters rose swiftly and unpredictably, confounding most efforts at organized evacuation.
She led one of the suffrage parades down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk and, as minister to Norway in World War II, organized evacuation efforts while hiding in a forest from the Nazi invasion.
And in Minamisoma, north of the plant, local officials probably organized evacuations by bus on the very day — March 15 — that a radioactive plume swung into their path, the report said.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who had declared emergencies in Ventura and Los Angeles, announced an emergency in San Diego County as officials worked to organize evacuation plans.
"WHO is unable to organize evacuation of this doctor to [Germany] but is exploring all options on how to ensure best care," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said.
Consequently, understanding how people behave in similar conditions becomes an essential issue in order to properly evaluate the urban risk assessment, efficiently organize evacuation procedures and plan interventions (on critical buildings, infrastructures).
Approximately 10,000 volunteer firefighters were placed on alert and city police were called in to organize evacuation centers.
As wealthier nations rushed to coordinate rescues, migrant workers from poorer nations in Asia and Africa — the majority of the work force there, according to an immigration expert — were fending for themselves, with their home countries unable to organize evacuations.
An example is Rory Kennedy's recent documentary "Last Days in Vietnam," which seeks and finds moral courage among Americans who, as North Vietnamese troops advanced southward, defied the United States Ambassador in Saigon, Graham Martin, by secretly organizing evacuations of South Vietnamese who would be at risk.
The Volcanic Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) formed in response to the famous eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia and saved lives following the 1991 eruption of Mount Hudson in Chile by organizing evacuations.
