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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.
Emergency Management Commissioner Sarah Russell was placed on paid administrative leave pending an external investigation ...
Mayor Cara Spencer said there is an ongoing investigation into the communication "breakdown" between Sarah Russell and the ...
We have systemic failure across so many systems here,” Spencer said. “We have a robust team that is unified in fixing this.” ...
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, ...
St. Louis police are investigating a series of online death threats against the head of the City Emergency Management Agency ...
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.
St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has named Capt. John Walk as the interim director of CEMA pending the results of both internal and external investigations into what went wrong Friday afternoon.