Humanitarian law prohibits any distinction between wounded civilians and wounded military personnel. They have the same rights to be picked up, evacuated and cared for. Humanitarian organizations play an important role in the event of evacuations, including in negotiations on the establishment of hospitals and safe zones. This includes establishing lists of names of all evacuees and ensuring that their medical responsibility takes precedence over police or military decisions to ensure their protection during evacuation. In order to better protect the medical facilities to which people are evacuated, the parties to the conflict may, at the beginning of hostilities, establish hospital and security zones as well as neutralized zones in which vulnerable persons will be accommodated (CGIV Art. 14 and 15). In encircled or besieged areas, parties to the conflict must “endeavour to conclude local agreements on the removal of the wounded, sick, frail and elderly, children and maternity wards, as well as on the transit of ministers of all religions, medical personnel and medical equipment en route to these areas” (CGIV Art. 17). These people are usually evacuated to appropriate hospitals or medical facilities. In view of the risks faced by persons evacuated and then assembled in hospital areas, the parties to the conflict must sign written agreements to regulate the operation of these areas (CGIV Art. 14 and 15). These agreements must in particular define the various responsibilities for the protection of populations in these areas. However, wounded and sick members of a belligerent group who fall into enemy hands are considered prisoners of war (GCI Art.

14). As such, they enjoy the rights of the Third Geneva Convention and must be evacuated from the combat zone to an internment camp for prisoners of war outside the danger zones (CGIII Art. 19). The evacuation must be humane and under conditions similar to those of the detaining power when it changes stations. In particular, they must receive food, drinking water, clothing and the necessary medical care (CGIII Art. 20). In the event of an international conflict, children may be evacuated abroad only if they are evacuated by the party to the conflict of which they are nationals. The term evacuation describes the act of transferring populations or individuals. In conflict situations, humanitarian law prohibits the displacement of populations. Military or medical evacuations are permitted, but only in exceptional circumstances and under strict and precise conditions.

Every disaster is different, as are the logistical challenges posed by road closures, fires, floods and many other variables. At the onset of a disaster, emergency managers determine the best temporary evacuation point that can be activated in the safe vicinity of the incident. The chosen location will be published on VCemergency.com and included in all emergency messages shared with the public. In non-international conflicts, the term evacuation is not used, but provisions prohibiting forced relocation or regulating exceptions use parallel language (Art. 17.1 APII). Upon arrival at a TEP scan, evacuees are greeted by the Ventura County Social Services Agency`s Disaster Services Friendly Team, who quickly assess each individual`s situation and determine the best course of action to provide temporary accommodation. Part of this assessment includes the evacuee`s registration in the Disaster Response and Recovery Management System. Registration in this system is essential to provide the data needed for logistics planning and disaster management. After the city evacuated the building, Faulconer undertook a forensic review and hired three outside law firms to address various aspects of the overall project. Military evacuation is possible under strictly limited conditions. These conditions must be interpreted restrictively: the commentaries to the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions state that the evacuation of populations must never be used as a combat strategy and must never be carried out solely in the name of its practical effectiveness in achieving a military objective.