2014 Event Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupts again, with pyroclastic flows streaming down the volcanic slope; the activity has caused the evacuation of 22,000 people from the danger zone around Sinabung 2014 Event A deteriorating security situation prompts the evacuation of Americans from its embassy in South Sudan 1988 Event Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage 1945 Event Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald 1945 Event Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1941 Event British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1941 Event British army begins evacuation of Greece 1940 Event British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 1865 Event Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina; Sherman's troops burn city