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Council, staff review siren activations and public alerting after severe-weather warnings
Summary
Following tornado warnings in the region, city emergency-management staff activated outdoor sirens and an emergency operation center; council members and communications staff discussed gaps in resident notifications and urged improved multi-channel messaging.
Lee's Summit — After tornado warnings and severe-weather watches in the region, city emergency-management staff activated outdoor warning sirens and opened an emergency operations center. Council members raised concerns about gaps in citizen notifications and urged clearer, multi-channel communications.
Fire Chief Mike Snyder, who also serves as the city's emergency management director, described the city's response. He said the city monitors weather continuously and activated the emergency operations center at a low level as radar showed possible severe conditions. "We sound our sirens for 1 rotate 1 cycle, which is 10 minutes,"…
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