An example of a local emergency requiring evacuation (continued)
As a precaution, approximately 5,000 people were evacuated from an area approximately one square mile in size, including parts of Cleveland, Brookpark and Brooklyn. Evacuees were asked to go to local schools, and were not allowed to go back home until the next day.
Thousands of people's lives were disrupted that day, but no one was injured. This time-limited acute health crisis was effectively mitigated in part by the use of evacuation.