Evacuation or Evacuate may refer to: *

Casualty evacuation Casualty evacuation, also known as CASEVAC or by the callsign Dustoff or colloquially Dust Off, is a military term for the emergency patient evacuation of casualties from a combat zone. Casevac can be done by both ground and air. "DUSTOFF" is ...

(CASEVAC), patient evacuation in combat situations *

Casualty movement Casualty movement is the collective term for the techniques used to move a casualty from the initial location (street, home, workplace, wilderness, battlefield) to the ambulance. In wilderness or combat conditions, it may first be necessary to st ...

, the procedure for moving a casualty from its initial location to an ambulance *

Emergency evacuation Emergency evacuation is the urgent immediate egress or escape of people away from an area that contains an imminent threat, an ongoing threat or a hazard to lives or property. Examples range from the small-scale evacuation of a building due t ...

, removal of persons from a dangerous place due to a disaster or impending war *

Medical evacuation Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield, to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of a ...

(MEDEVAC), evacuating a patient by plane or helicopter or even train

Specific evacuations

Evacuation of East Prussia The evacuation of East Prussia was the movement of German civilian population and military personnel from East Prussia between 20 January and March 1945, that was initially organized and carried out by state authorities but quickly turned into ...

, after World War II *

Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to protect people, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk. Under the nam ...

List of World War II evacuations Several instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II. Forced migrations * World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations ** Forc ...

Entertainment

* "Evacuation" (song), a song by Pearl Jam * ''Evacuation'' (TV series), a children's show in the UK *

Evacuation (The Bill) "Evacuation" is an episode of British TV series ''The Bill'', broadcast in 1988. The episode features one of the show's most early prominent events – the Sun Hill explosion of 1988. The episode was released on DVD as part of ''The Bill – Vol ...

, an episode of British TV series ''The Bill'' *

Evacuate (band) Evacuate is an American six piece punk rock band from Southern California, founded in 2007. With influences ranging from the Sex Pistols, Chelsea, U.K. Subs, Broken Bones, Negative Approach and the English Dogs, Evacuate's releases and live se ...

, a punk rock band from Southern California * ''Evacuate'' (album), a 1982 album by Chelsea

Other

Defecation Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus. The act has a variety of names ranging f ...

and/or

urination Urination, also known as micturition, is the release of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. It is the urinary system's form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, uresis, ...

, especially involuntarily after death * the physical process of creating a

vacuum A vacuum is a space devoid of matter. The word is derived from the Latin adjective ''vacuus'' for "vacant" or "void". An approximation to such vacuum is a region with a gaseous pressure much less than atmospheric pressure. Physicists often dis ...

Forced migration Forced displacement (also forced migration) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, g ...

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