Citizen Corps presents information on Map Your Neighborhood program

Published 2:30 pm Saturday, March 19, 2016

When something bad happens, everybody can count on neighbors who are trained in First Aid and CPR; have chainsaws; are willing to check in on the latchkey kids whose parents may be stranded across the river. Right?

Well, for the rest of us, there’s the Map Your Neighborhood program, which helps neighbors get together and organize their emergency resources and skills.

Learn about Map Your Neighborhood in a presentation at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 6 at the Carnation Fire Station, led by Duvall resident Gene Laughlin.

Map Your Neighborhood is an award-winning program developed by LuAn Johnson, PhD, which walks communities through the steps of preparing for and responding to various disasters. Johnson told the story of a man losing his 85-year-old mother in the Oakland Hills fire east of San Francisco.

“If neighbors only talked to each other before the fire the way we talk afterwards, she would have been saved,” she said, “No one knew she was there.”

For more information about the program, send email to myn@cdccc.us. For information about Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps, visit www.cdccc.us.