Reaching the northern city of Kunduz, Wazir witnessed the night-time evacuation of Pakistani soldiers and al-Qaida fighters who, he said, were airlifted out by Pakistani military helicopters.
An old leather autograph book opened with a message from his parents, and had been filled with names of pals I vaguely remembered from his stories about school in Liverpool and war-time evacuation to north Wales.
Real-time evacuation planning models could be used for effective evacuation purposes.
Note the different scales used for the daytime and night-time evacuation demand colour-ramps.
Night-time evacuation demand figures are significantly lower for the low-mobility population than the general population.
From Google's hurricane hub to the The New York Times evacuation map, life-saving online tools draw from a recent and relatively underfunded set of government programs that release information in ways conducive to third-party developers.
The accident triggered a chaotic night-time evacuation of more than 4,000 passengers and crew from the 290-metre-long ship (951-ft), which still rests on a rock shelf outside the port.
It focused on the effect of number of exits and population on time of evacuation, and evacuation efficiency of each exit by modeling the building.
This makes it possible to carry out timed evacuations and spot possible design problems that can hinder evacuation, he says.
