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One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm.
the report said the evacuees would be placed in temporary shelters
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Amid highway closures, many evacuees had little choice but to flee eastward and to the city of Roswell, 75 miles away, where hotels and shelters quickly filled.
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CBS News, 19 June 2024
The city of Roswell – about 70 miles east of Ruidoso – raced to accommodate evacuees on Monday, including by clearing hospital space for patients who are being relocated from the Ruidoso hospital and setting up emergency shelters for people and livestock.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 18 June 2024
Most of the evacuees have returned home, other than those displaced from the border with Lebanon due to ongoing attacks from Hezbollah.
—Jennifer Lutz, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2024
The scale of the challenge is daunting, for the Biden administration must broker Egyptian-Israeli understandings on Rafah, organize the humanitarian mechanism with Gulf states, and coordinate with the Israelis to permit evacuees to return to the north.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
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CBS News, 19 June 2024
The city of Roswell – about 70 miles east of Ruidoso – raced to accommodate evacuees on Monday, including by clearing hospital space for patients who are being relocated from the Ruidoso hospital and setting up emergency shelters for people and livestock.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 18 June 2024
Most of the evacuees have returned home, other than those displaced from the border with Lebanon due to ongoing attacks from Hezbollah.
—Jennifer Lutz, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2024
The scale of the challenge is daunting, for the Biden administration must broker Egyptian-Israeli understandings on Rafah, organize the humanitarian mechanism with Gulf states, and coordinate with the Israelis to permit evacuees to return to the north.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
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evacuee
noun
evac·u·ee
i-ˌvak-yə-ˈwē 
: an evacuated person
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