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A nearby school and residential block have been evacuated as a precaution and traffic in the area is expected to be affected.

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But except for staying home, there were few precautions that the workers, mostly men from Mexico, could take.

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“You’d think they would have taken extra precautions to make sure every hot spot, everything was extinguished there from the previous fire ... Apparently that didn’t happen.”

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“One does not become a judge without reading a great many books. Please forgive my appearance. It is a precaution against cats.”

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As a necessary precaution, members of Kontos’s crew stood by the ship with axes ready to cut the ropes if the Mykali started to be dragged down.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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