flood victims
Drowned-out residents
People who have suffered loss or harm due to flooding—damaged homes, destroyed possessions, displacement, injury, or death of loved ones.
The term appears in news coverage and disaster relief contexts: Volunteers distributed supplies to flood victims.
The organization raises funds for flood victims across the region.
- displacedShifted from proper location
- survivorsThose still alive after
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- rescueSave from harm
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- victimscasualty, survivors, fatality, casualties, sufferer
- Vulnerable Groupshomeless youth, orphans, refugees, disabled people, elderly poor
- climate displacedclimate refugees, climate migrants
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- aid recipientsfood stamp users, Medicare recipients, social security recipients, scholarship holders, charity cases
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
flood victimsrescue teams
Groups saving endangered people
first responders · aid workers · emergency services · donors · humanitarian workers
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