Sentences with phrase «evacuation of»

That was the second evacuation of residents caused by a broken pipeline in North Burnaby in as many years.

Similarly, an October 2014 wellhead failure in Jefferson County resulted in the forced evacuation of nearly 400 homeowners.

«Emergency evacuation of 250 Burnaby residents was required and 50 residential properties were affected.

A massive wildfire in Colorado has forced the evacuation of 36,000 people, destroyed over 300 homes, and killed two people.

Trudeau is making the visit to see first - hand the devastation caused by the wildfire that forced the evacuation of the city.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves the helicopter during a visit to Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday, May 13, 2016, to see first - hand the devastation caused by the wildfire that forced the evacuation of the city.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is given a briefing at the Regional Emergency Operation Centre during a visit to Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday, May 13, 2016, to see first - hand the devastation caused by the wildfire that forced the evacuation of the city.

At any rate, so far 1600 have been reported killed, 2 million are estimated to be homeless, 14 million have been affected in various ways, and new flood warnings have resulted in the evacuation of 400,000 people.

Thirty million people in Bangladesh could be displaced by a 0.9 - meter increase in sea level, and the rising waters would most likely force the evacuation of 70 million Chinese.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a helicopter tour of the devastation during a visit to Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday, May 13, 2016, to see first - hand the devastation caused by the wildfire that forced the evacuation of the city.

After lying dormant for almost two centuries, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull (that's pronounced AY - uh - full - ay - ho - kul) volcano blew its top on March 30 - in the process spurring an evacuation of hundreds, while at the same time, drawing in more than 25,000 tourists from around the world, eager to see the «lavafalls» and fiery belching up close (but not without some danger as reports of tourist rescues are showing).

The plan would entail the evacuation of several bases in more densely populated areas.

As if those of us living in Southern California didn't already have enough to worry about with the rampaging wildfires that have engulfed much of the region and prompted the evacuation of over 500,000 people, health officials are now cautioning

Hurricane Irma pounded Cuba's northern coast on Saturday and barrelled toward Florida as authorities scrambled to complete an unprecedented evacuation of millions of residents hours before the storm would engulf the state.

The Sydney Morning Herald itself documented the heatwave of January 1896, reporting on the mass evacuation of affected residents by train from inland regions.

Such fires across the northern U.S. and Canada — which last month forced the evacuation of 80,000 from the Alberta tar sands town of Fort McMurray — were projected to increase over the coming decades as the climate continues to warm.

1974: Scientists at National Academy of Science propose evacuation of 6 million from homes due to global cooling drought conditions

Only a year ago, they point out, the city shut down the subway system and ordered the evacuation of 370,000 people as Hurricane Irene barreled up the Atlantic coast.

Blair epitomised the estrangement of government and ordinary life — professional, managerial politics — the evacuation of substance from politics.

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Finally, in 1985, Anjain organized the evacuation of Rongelap with the aid of a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior.

The newest phase of Kilauea volcano's ongoing eruption has opened as many as 20 new fissures on Hawaii's Big Island over the past two weeks, spewing lava and volcanic gases, forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 residents, and destroying dozens of homes near the town of Pahoa.

Thousands of barrels of oil from Alberta's tar sands region — similar to the diluted bitumen that would flow through the controversial Keystone XL project — spilled into a residential neighborhood from a pipeline owned by ExxonMobil, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes.

This puts Donald Trump's commitment to withdraw from the treaty in a useful perspective; in fact, his spite may ultimately prove perversely productive, since the evacuation of American leadership on climate seems to have mobilized China, eager to claim the mantle and far more consequential to the future of the planet because of its size and relative poverty, to adopt a much more aggressive posture toward climate.

Americans certainly have proved capable of big moves: the Great Migration of blacks from the South to the industrial North, the drift from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, the mass evacuation of inner cities for suburbia.

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is planning the evacuation of its entire population as sea levels continue to rise.

Hurricane Katrina, which hit the already - subsiding Louisiana coast in late August 2005 with heavy winds and a 28 - foot storm surge, forced the evacuation of close to 1 million residents of New Orleans and the surrounding area.

In September 2008, Hurricane Gustav urged the temporary evacuation of New Orleans before it changed course and softened its blow.

A damaged spillway at California's Oroville Dam where high flows in February 2017 caused the evacuation of downstream residents.

It consumed more than 346 homes, burned more than 18,200 acres, forced the evacuation of more than 32,000 residents, and cost $ 8.8 million to contain.

On Feb. 12th, 2017, California's authorities ordered the astonishing emergency evacuation of 188,000 people in Butte, Sutter, and Yuba counties, in the flood path of the Oroville high dam.

The chaotic Oroville emergency evacuation of 188,000 people took 7.5 hours!

I can only suggest that the residents at risk also «lawyer up» and demand that dam levels be kept low enough so that the dam can contain the inflow for sufficient enough time to allow evacuation of any and all areas likely to be at risk due to catastrophic failure.

A terrible flooding rain that has now killed 160 people, forced the evacuation of 2,500 villages and buried more than 450 villages under waters rising high enough to cover the hills.

02.22.2017 — The erosion of the Oroville Dam's emergency spillway, which triggered the evacuation of 188,000 people... Read More.

Governor Christie ordered the evacuation of New Jersey's barrier islands and closure of the state's casinos by 4 p.m. Sunday.

Legal Insurrection readers will recall that our governor formally requested emergency funding for the storm damage that occurred in the state, which included deterioration of the Oroville Dam that led to a public evacuation of...

Located just 38 miles north of New York City, should the 2 GW power plant have an accident on the scale of that which took out the Fukushima plant in Japan, other new analysis by NRDC shows that it would be 10 - 100 times more costly — Fukushima is estimated to cost at least $ 60 billion to clean up — requiring the evacuation of millions, should a fallout plume extend southwards.

In the squatting position, however, with the knees up higher, the puborectalis muscle (which «kinks» the colon) can fully relax and open, which leads to full evacuation of the colon, much quicker and easier than sitting down.

Three people got killed during the evacuation of New York City.

On April 15, 1958, a fire on the second floor of MOMA that killed one person forced the evacuation of paintings and staff on MOMA's upper floors to the Whitney.

The show including works which have never been shown in Ukraine such as Moving image (1994 — 2005) by Carsten Höller, Untitled (2007) by Martin Kobe, 5th Season (Evacuation of Bewdley, Worcestershire) and 5th Season (The Lost Rivers of London)(2007) by Marc Quinn.

Just as I was exiting Roe Ethridge's packed show of going - them - one - better genre photos at Andrew Kreps, word came that an electric fire in a closet in the building housing the gallery Kravets Wehby had caused the evacuation of all the structure's tenants.

Human Mask was partially shot on a drone camera in Fukushima in 2011 after the earthquake - triggered tsunami had caused the meltdown of three nuclear plant reactors, the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area and at least 1,600 deaths; the sense of desolation is palpable.

I have become direction reflects on an artist's evacuation of authorship, and its implications on a curatorial methodology.

After an emergency evacuation of a deep space prison ship, the player is stranded in an unknown galaxy full of escaped prisoners who grow stronger with every passing moment.

The Fishing in Baku gameplay video is lifted from Battlefield 4's campaign, which starts with the evacuation of American VIPs from Shanghai and follows your squad's struggle to find its way home.

The United States Army's «The Damned» 33rd Battalion volunteered to enter the city and spearhead the evacuation of its citizens, but instead the unit's commander, Colonel John Konrad, went metaphorically up river and set himself up as the local ruler.

Battlefield 4 features an intense and dramatic character - driven campaign that starts with the evacuation of American VIPs from Shanghai and follows your squad's struggle to find its way home.

Helghast forces have mounted a devastating counterattack, prompting the ISA (Interplanetary Strategic Alliance) evacuation of planet Helghan.