"Evacuation planning is one of the most difficult tasks in emergency management, and on evacuation routes, bottlenecks in recent disasters have resulted in loss of life.
"That was the impetus for StreetLight Data to conduct a national (plus Canada) analysis of small towns and their evacuation risks in situations like floods, fire, dam breaks, hurricanes, tornadoes and other emergencies."
Emergency Management Magazine recently reported on the results of this survey (Note: among the top twenty U.S. communities with the most constrained evacuation routes is Nahant, MA.)
To access a copy of the complete Emergency Management article, please visit:
Emergency Management: The Most 'Evacuation-Challenged Communities in the U.S.(27 AUG 19)
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