St. Louis' emergency management commissioner has been placed on administrative leave, the mayor said, after tornado sirens ...

Asking one person to be a specialist in all of emergency management is a monumental task and does not set us up for success,” Sarah Russell said in a 2024 audit.

Mayor Cara Spencer said there is an ongoing investigation into the communication "breakdown" between Sarah Russell and the ...

Emergency Management Commissioner Sarah Russell was placed on paid administrative leave pending an external investigation ...

ST. LOUIS, MO. Today, Mayor Cara Spencer is moving to place CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell on paid administrative leave ...

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer placed CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell on leave after a failure to activate tornado warnings, ...

The directive to activate the sirens was ambiguous, which cannot happen when a tornado is sweeping through our City and St. Louisans’ safety depends on being alerted ...

We have systemic failure across so many systems here,” Spencer said. “We have a robust team that is unified in fixing this.” ...

All four members of CEMA were a half mile away from their office at a training when the storm hit St. Louis. When asked on Thursday about issues raised in the audit, Mayor Spencer acknowledged ...

The answer is that it depends on where one is — the policy and plan are different in Chicago than they are in Naperville, for example.