All posts tagged "Emergencyevacuation"

Wildfires raged across western Canada on Saturday, forcing 24,000 people to evacuate their homes, authorities said. Roughly 301,243 acres burned in 103 separate blazes, said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Forty-five new fires took during Friday and Saturday, said NBC News. At least 31 of the 92 fires reported Friday were considered to be out of control, said the Alberta Emergency Management Agency. A total of 24,511 people have been effected by mandatory evacuations across northern and central Alberta. Another 5,200 have been placed under evacuation alert in what is being described as a “rapi......

The United Nations is ordering the evacuation of all non-essential international workers from Haiti, citing ongoing violence that has left workers vulnerable to kidnapping and attacks last week on U.N.-backed food warehouses across the country. The evacuation order comes two months after the U.N. Security Council voted to extend the mandate of its Integrated Office in Haiti by a year and expand staffing, and ahead of a meeting Monday on the situation in Haiti. The United States is floating a resolution that would establish a new framework for sanctioning Haiti’s gang leaders, as well as those ......