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search People testing evacuation from a tunnel  Evacuation is a
term that comes from Latin language. Literally, it means
emptying. Most of the time it means that people leave an area or
a zone because of an imminent danger or threat. Evacuations are
planned, and people should leave the zone of danger according to
the plan. The causes for evacuations can be natural disasters
such as flooding or volcano eruptions, or they can be man-made
ones, like a bomb in a building, a fire on a train in a tunnel
or an industrial accident.