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

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.

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

St. Louis probes death threats against CEMA chief after tornado siren failure; Mayor places the chief on paid leave.

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

Following a deadly tornado in St. Louis that claimed five lives, Mayor Cara Spencer has placed emergency management chief ...

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

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Mayor Cara Spencer has placed City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) Commissioner Sarah Russell on paid administrative leave pending an external investigation into Friday’s failure ...

The mayor's office said Commissioner Sarah Russell’s directive to activate the outdoor warning siren during a call to the ...

"I cannot move on from this without providing accountability and ensuring that our emergency management is in trusted hands." ...

St. Louis' emergency management commissioner has been placed on administrative leave, the mayor said, after tornado sirens failed to be activated ahead of Friday's storm.

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 ...