Florida Orders Nearly 500,000 Residents Evacuated Ahead of ...
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Florida Governor Jeb Bush has declared a state of emergency there, as authorities order the evacuation of nearly half a million people as a precaution against Hurricane Frances.
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Government officials ordered the evacuation of 15,000 people from low-lying areas on the Baja California peninsula Thursday as Hurricane John approached, the state governor's office said.
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Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate today as wildfires continued to spread across Southern California.
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MIAMI - Florida and Georgia declared states of emergency and evacuation orders were extended to more than a million people Thursday as a massive hurricane worked its way toward the US mainland.
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STUART, Fla. - With homes still swaddled in blue tarp and the deaths from Hurricane Charley still fresh in their minds, Florida residents lined up before dawn Thursday for supplies or made evacuation plans as they braced for an onslaught that could be worse than Charley's...
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KEY WEST, Fla. Sept. 10, 2004 - In an all-too-familiar drill, Floridians got out of town or boarded up their windows and stocked up on canned food Friday as Hurricane Ivan threatened the state with its third thrashing in a month.
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Residents of Florida are preparing for Hurricane Frances, less than a month after the state was hit by Hurricane Charley.
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Authorities urged over a million people from New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could bring it onto the US coast by Wednesday night.
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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Hundreds of thousands of people on Florida's east coast were told to leave their homes once again on Friday as deadly Hurricane Jeanne approached for what could be a record fourth hurricane hit in a year on the storm-weary state.
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Thousands of Mexicans are to be evacuated from their homes as a hurricane sweeps along the coast.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - Hurricane Frances crawled toward the Florida coast Saturday, bringing a potential for 20 inches of rain and heavy flooding and prompting millions of residents and tourists to evacuate during the Labor Day weekend...
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MIAMI  - Hundreds of thousands of people were told Wednesday to get ready to evacuate as powerful hurricane Frances crept closer to Florida just weeks after hurricane Charley's rampage.
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Hundreds of thousands of people were told  once again to leave their homes on Florida's east coast as  deadly Hurricane Jeanne approached on Friday for what could be  a record fourth hurricane hit in a year on the storm-weary  state.
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KEY WEST, Fla. - Before Florida could catch a breath from a furious hurricane double-whammy, residents of the Keys were sent scurrying under new evacuation orders Friday as yet another powerful storm was taking aim at the state...
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An emergency official said Florida residents may want to think twice about taking down the hurricane shutters. Even as Hurricane Frances battered Florida, another strong storm churned in the central Atlantic.
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Hurricane Ivan, with winds of 155 miles per hour, forced evacuations in Jamaica as it moved on a track toward Cuba and Florida, where residents braced for the third powerful storm to hit the state in a month.