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The problem of emergency decision-making can be regarded as one of the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) problems. In this manuscript, a new method to solve the problem of emergency decision-making named D-PLTS is proposed, based on D number theory and the probability linguistic term set (PLTS). The evaluation information given by experts is tidied to be the form of PLTS, which can be directly transferred to the form of the D number, no matter whether the information is complete or not. Furthermore, the integration property of D number theory is carried out to fuse the information. Besides, two examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with some existing methods, the D-PLTS is more straightforward and has less computational complexity. 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