ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The expected eruption of Mount Spurr — a volcano just 75 miles west of Alaska’s largest city — has prompted municipal officials to upgrade their activation status to level two Thursday.
The office of Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance put out a notice Thursday that the city’s Office of Emergency Management will be stepping up its activation status to level two out of five total.
It means the city’s eruption plan for Spurr will go from “normal operations” to “response incident monitoring,” according to the municipality’s description of all five levels. Level two means responding agencies could take “coordinated action.”…