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Emergency evacuation is an immediate egress or escape of people away from an area that contains an imminent threat, an ongoing threat or a hazard to lives or property. Examples range from the small-scale evacuation of a building due to a storm or fire to the large-scale evacuation of a city because of a flood, bombardment or approaching weather ...
123 or 112. Emergency at sea: 129. Netherlands. 112. Text phone – 0800 81 12; Non-emergency police – 0900 88 44[a] or 0343 578 844; [66] Non-emergency police (text phone) – 0900 18 44; Suicide prevention – 113; Animal emergency – 144; Child abuse – 0900 123 12 30; [a] Anti-bullying hotline – 0800 90 50.
The Tacoa disaster (Spanish: tragedia de Tacoa) occurred on December 19, 1982 as a result of a fuel oil tank fire on the premises of the Ricardo Zuloaga thermal power plant, owned by Electricidad de Caracas and located in Tacoa, a seaside village and an area of Vargas, Venezuela. [1][2] There were 150 or more victims, amongst them many firemen ...
The Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration — Spanish: Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres — is the agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico that oversees all emergency activities that occur in Puerto Rico. Its mission is to coordinate all the resources of the ...
112 is a common emergency telephone number that can be dialed free of charge from most mobile telephones and, in some countries, fixed telephones in order to reach emergency services (ambulance, fire and rescue, police). 112 is a part of the GSM standard and all GSM-compatible telephone handsets are able to dial 112 even when locked or, in some ...
August 27, 2024 at 10:48 AM. A coastal town in Massachusetts is shutting its parks, playgrounds, and fields from dusk to dawn due to concerns about the mosquito-borne virus Eastern equine ...
The Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies ( Spanish: Centro de Coordinación de Alertas y Emergencias Sanitarias, CCAES) is a body of the Spanish Ministry of Health responsible for coordinating the management of information and supporting all health authorities in cases of national or international health alert or emergency ...
The San Juanico disaster involved a series of fires and explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in the settlement of San Juan Ixhuatepec (popularly known as San Juanico), a municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, Mexico, on 19 November 1984. [1] The facility and the settlement, part of Greater Mexico City, were ...