During wartime, civilians who have been evacuated from a city in danger of attack are billetted in communal shelters or in the homes of individuals.

In addition, the Swiss government maintains large communal shelters (including the Sonnenberg Tunnel) stocked with over four months of food and fuel.

Everyone pitched in to finish constructing temporary communal shelters, and Killashandra found herself once again plaiting polly fronds, pleased that her deftness caused no questions.

The communal shelters were usually intended to accommodate about fifty persons, and were divided into various sections by interior walls with openings connecting the different sections.

The American volunteers, most of whom will stay two weeks to six months, will sleep in army barracks or communal shelters.

Energy conservation, difficult as it is in a cold wave, may require such measures as collecting people (especially the poor and elderly) in communal shelters.

Once the shelters had been brought over from Paradise and set up, the group gathered in the communal shelter for a meal.

Of the 41,376 air raid shelters in Hull, 250 domestic shelters and 120 communal shelters were destroyed, from which more than 800 people were rescued alive.

The report on families calls for an end to the use of welfare hotels and barracks-style communal shelters by June 1992.

No one, but no one, would dig Kitty Bainbridge out of a communal shelter in Soho.