KEY POINT
Understand the risks to all populations during an evacuation or SIP or an incident requiring both.
Risks resulting from evacuation include:
- The evacuees may be exposed to the hazard.
- The mode of transportation could put people at risk chosen by the evacuees (e.g, running out of fuel, mechanical malfunction, car crash).
- In areas of high population density, a large-scale evacuation could cause congestion and gridlock on the roads, rendering the evacuation ineffective.
- Weather conditions could change, causing an evacuation to become dangerous