St. Louis Tornado: Emergency Management Head sent warns on holiday on non-active siren

The Mayor of St. Louis has last week sent the city’s emergency management head on administrative holiday, on the non-activity of the warning ahead of a deadly tornado.City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) Commissioner Sara Russell, payment will remain on administrative leave as it has gone wrong in an external investigation, the office of Mayor Kara Spencer announced on Tuesday. CBS News,On 16 May, St. Louis was killed, which claims the lives of at least five people in this major city of Missouri province of America.The Spencer described it as “one of the worst storms, exactly”. what went wrong?According to the news outlet, St. Louis has 60 outdoor sirens, which should be activated once after the National Weather Service (NWS), which issues a tornado warning for the region last Friday. These can be activated only from two places: CEMA office and fire department. According to the mayor’s office, Emergency Commissioner Russian, was at an off -wee workshop with other emergency management staff, when the tornado warning was reduced. This prevented him from activating the siren from the main building of his agency, about half a mile. Instead, Russell approached the fire department, but the instruction was “vague”. Spencer’s office released a recording of this call, in which Russell confirmed to be aware of NWS’s warning, before saying, “Well, you got a siren?” At the other end, the person replies, “Yes, mam,” and the call ends.The Spencer said at a news conference on Wednesday morning at a news conference at a news conference, “The direction was not clear. Russell did not clearly direct the person from the fire department to press the button to activate the siren. It is my understanding that the button was not pushed.”However, it was found that the button was not already working. Work is going on to fix this and is expected to be completed within days.On the other hand, the button was working in the CEMA office. Fire department personnel will now be posted there to activate the siren if needed.St. Louis Fire Chief John Walk will serve as the Interim Emergency Management Commissioner until a permanent appointment is a permanent appointment.