Evacuation
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Evacuation may refer to:
  • Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), patient evacuation in combat situations
  • Casualty movement
    Casualty movement
    The casualty movement is the procedures used to move a casualty from the initial location to the ambulance....

    , the procedure for moving a casualty from its initial location to an ambulance
  • Emergency evacuation
    Emergency evacuation
    Emergency evacuation is the immediate and rapid movement of people away from the threat or actual occurrence of a hazard. Examples range from the small scale evacuation of a building due to a bomb threat or fire to the large scale evacuation of a district because of a flood, bombardment or...

    , removal of persons from a dangerous place due to a disaster or impending war
  • Medical evacuation (MEDEVAC), evacuating a patient by plane or helicopter

Specific evacuations

  • Evacuation of East Prussia
    Evacuation of East Prussia
    The evacuation of East Prussia refers to the evacuation of the German civilian population and military personnel in East Prussia and the Klaipėda region between 20 January, and March 1945, as part of the evacuation of German civilians towards the end of World War II...

     after World War II
  • Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
    Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
    Evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to save the population of urban or military areas in the United Kingdom from aerial bombing of cities and military targets such as docks. Civilians, particularly children, were moved to areas thought to be less at risk....

  • List of World War II evacuations

Entertainment

  • "Evacuation" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...

  • Evacuation (TV series)
    Evacuation (TV series)
    Evacuation is a television series broadcast on CBBC in the UK.It is a reality show for children, in which six boys and six girls, all aged 12, from cities all over the UK are taken back to wartime Britain for two weeks, to live just as evacuees in World War II would have done.The show is presented...

    , a children's show in the UK
  • Evacuate the Dancefloor
    Evacuate the Dancefloor
    "Evacuate the Dancefloor" is a song by German group Cascada from their third studio album of the same name. The song features a guest rap from famous German rapper Carlprit and was released as the album's lead single on 29 June 2009; debuting at number one on the UK Singles Chart for the week of 5...

    , a 2009 single by German dance act Cascada
    Cascada
    Cascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"...

     from the album of the same name
    Evacuate the Dancefloor (album)
    Evacuate the Dancefloor is the third studio album from German eurodance group Cascada, consisting of DJ Manian, Natalie Horler, and Yanou, first released on July 3, 2009. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at Plazmatek Studio, Yanou Studio 1...


Other

Evacuation may also refer to:
  • Defecation
    Defecation
    Defecation is the final act of digestion by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus. Waves of muscular contraction known as peristalsis in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through the digestive tract towards the rectum...

     and or urination
    Urination
    Urination, also known as micturition, voiding, peeing, weeing, pissing, and more rarely, emiction, is the ejection of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. In healthy humans the process of urination is under voluntary control...

    , especially involuntarily after death.
  • the physical process of creating a vacuum
    Vacuum
    In everyday usage, vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, such that its gaseous pressure is much less than atmospheric pressure. The word comes from the Latin term for "empty". A perfect vacuum would be one with no particles in it at all, which is impossible to achieve in...

  • Forced migration
    Forced migration
    Forced migration refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region...

    , a coerced and often violent movement of persons away from their home region
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