Sentences with phrase «evacuation orders began»

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Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello urged the 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory to seek refuge in one of 460 hurricane shelters in advance of the storm and later ordered police and National Guard troops to begin evacuations of flood - prone areas in the north and east of the island.

(Google's history with Idea Village began the day the evacuation order for 2008's Hurricane Gustav was lifted — the company sent a 32 - person team to the city.)

His grandparents live in nearby Pollock Pines (where the fire allegedly began on purpose by a suspect in custody) and were on voluntary evacuation orders.

Last September, the government began lifting evacuation orders for the seven municipalities wholly or partly within 20 kilometers of the plant.