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Emergency operations warns Independence facing unusually active storm season; urges residents to make plans and sign up for alerts
Summary
The city’s chief of emergency operations briefed council on staffing, volunteer training hours, and severe-weather preparations, noting high statewide tornado and damaging-wind reports and urging residents to use the Rave alert system and adopt-a-siren program.
Samantha Morris, chief of emergency operations, told the Independence City Council on April 14 that the city’s emergency-preparedness team is focusing on severe-weather readiness amid an unusually active season.
Morris said the emergency-preparedness team currently has two employees and is recruiting to fill two additional positions. Volunteers and leadership have completed thousands of hours of training: Morris said volunteers recorded more than 3,000 hours of training, leadership about 900 hours, and staff donated roughly 1,300 hours…
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