evacuators

/ɪˈvækjuˌeɪtərz/
noun
  1. People who leave a dangerous place to go somewhere safer.
    • The city provided buses to help evacuators leave the wildfire zone quickly.
    • The evacuators were taken to a shelter after the hurricane warning.
    • During the flood, the evacuators followed the emergency routes to higher ground.
  2. People or things that remove people from a dangerous area.
    • The helicopters were used as evacuators to airlift people from the flooded village.
    • Rescue teams acted as evacuators, carrying children and elderly people to safety.
    • The trained evacuators helped everyone out of the building during the fire drill.
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