text: "U.S. Geological Survey, the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys."
  
  It took 3 government agencies laden with high paid employees with good benefits and tons of high dollar equipment scattered around to raise the level from yellow to orange. It appears no other action has been taken, public or private, other than to print this fine article. It is a lot of time, money and effort spent to give planes a warning that ash might be in the air. And who operates the planes that fly over that area? And even if the code was raised to red, I bet the villagers 45 miles away would not evacuate. I wonder if they did a cost to benefit comparison and what that number might be?