evacuation

Five households in the immediate vicinity of a massive, ever-widening sinkhole near Tokyo were urged to evacuate Sunday, with efforts to rescue a man stuck inside reportedly halted. A 74-year-old truck driver was swallowed Tuesday by the cavity...

Hurricane-force winds ripped across the area Tuesday, causing a fierce wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb to burn buildings and cause hurried evacuations. Fearful people fled on foot from the 1,260-acre (510-hectare) fire that was consuming...

Sunday saw two Israeli airstrikes on south Beirut following an Israeli army warning residents to leave the hub of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, according to official media. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that...

Authorities in Colombia suggested on Saturday that settlements near a rumbling, renowned volcano be evacuated in preparation for an eruption. The Disaster Risk Management Office said it was preparing to evacuate villages within 15 kilometers (nine...

The planned disposal of an unexploded World War II bomb Friday will force a mass evacuation around Berlin’s central railway station and likely spark transport chaos in the German capital. Trains, trams, buses and even some...