What is Evacuation?
{{no sources|date=April 2016}} [[File:Tunnelrettungsuebung-2.jpg|thumb|People testing evacuation from a tunnel]] '''Evacuation''' is a term that comes from [[Latin language]]. Literally, it means ''emptying''. Most of the time it means that people leave an area or a zone because of an [[wikt:imminent|imminent]] [[wikt:danger|danger]] or [[threat]]. Evacuations are planned, and people should leave the zone of danger according to the plan. The causes for evacuations can be natural disasters such as [[flooding]] or [[volcano]] eruptions, or they can be man-made ones, like a [[bomb]] in a [[building]], a [[fire]] on a [[train]] in a [[tunnel]] or an [[industry|industrial]] [[accident]]. {{stub}} [[Category:Safety]]