Mayor's meeting tackles household disaster planning

Local volcanologist Jerry George is doing his best to shake things up in La Conner.

In a good way, of course.

George, a charter member of the Town's emergency management commission and its immediate past chair, addressed the panel's embrace of neighborhood mapping at the "Meet the Mayor" bi-monthly forum at La Conner Swinomish Library Saturday.

Neighborhood mapping developed in Oakland, California after a devastating wildlands fire in the 1990s engulfed hundreds of homes. It provides vital information to first responders in emergencies and natural disasters.

"With neighborhood mapping," George...