The report cites “multiple cascading failures at almost every level leading up to and even after the" May 16 tornado in St.

The move followed failures within the city's tornado siren system, which never sounded as the May 16 tornado caused major ...

The City of St. Louis is expected to release the findings of an external investigation into the tornado siren failure that ...

The city’s emergency management director will be back in City Hall for a pre-termination review today, the same day an ...

A report released Monday outlined several failures of the city of St. Louis’ emergency preparedness after emergency sirens failed to sound during an EF-3 tornado.

The report goes on to say that it was clear that the City Emergency Management Agency was "understaffed, underfunded and ...

Sarah Russell had been on leave in the wake of the city’s failure to deploy storm sirens before the May 16 tornado.

Sarah Russell is no longer employed as director of St. Louis' City Emergency Management Agency, the city's Department of ...

A comprehensive investigation into St. Louis' emergency response system has uncovered a series of preventable failures that led to tornado sirens not activating during a recent storm, prompting ...

A report prepared by the law firm Carmody MacDonald was released on Monday. It stated there were “multiple cascading failures ...

Today Mayor Cara Spencer held a press conference to address the findings of an external investigation into the city’s ...

On May 16, a mile-wide tornado with winds up to 152 miles per hour ripped through the city of St. Louis, its worst damage leaving parts of the city’s already disinvested northern neighborhoods ...