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When you this person is charge, then St Louis Tornado. Wonder why it went wrong... Of course it did!
https://www.firstalert4.com/ ^ | May 21, 2025 | Shoshana Stahl

Posted on 05/24/2025 4:49:44 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose

Trans CEMA Director Suspended After Failure To Alert St. Louis Residents Of Deadly Tornadoes Friday, May 23, 2025 - 07:30 PM The head of the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) in St. Louis has been suspended pending an investigation into into why tornado sirens did not sound before an EF-3 tornado hit parts of Central West End and North City last week. A physical button must be pushed by officials at the CEMA office in order to activate warning sirens; this was never done. Five people died when the storm struck.

Sarah Russell, (a biological woman) who identifies as transgender and goes by they/them pronouns, was promoted to the CEMA leadership position in 2022 in the midst of the widespread DEI hiring blitz within Democrat run cities across the US. CEMA is a local partner organization to FEMA.

CEMA staff, including Russell, were at a workshop on Market Street and not at the CEMA office located on Olive, where the siren activation button is located. The Mayor's office said Russell contacted the fire department, apparently at the time the tornado was approaching the city. City officials say there was then a breakdown in communication, with the directive to activate the sirens being vague.

Why didn't Russel go to the office to set off the alarm herself? This is not known but the two locations are approximately four blocks away - A very short distance.

In April of 2024, Russell's office received a $3.9 million grant to improve the siren system in St. Louis which she said needed to be updated. This included adding multiple languages to alarm PSAs, such as Spanish, Vietnamese, Hindi, Swahili, Bosnian and Dari/Patscho. However, no amount of siren improvements will matter if no one is there to push the button.

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has placed Sarah Russell on leave, stating at a press conference:

“Let me be clear: CEMA exists to alert the community when severe weather is coming. This office failed to do that in the most horrific and deadly storm that our city has experienced in my lifetime..."

The investigation will look into why the CEMA staff, including Russell, were not in the office when the storms were anticipated. CEMA will be temporarily led by St. Louis Fire Department Capt. John Walk until a permanent replacement is found.

The event strikes up yet another debate on the dangers of DEI hiring and the promotion of people based on identity instead of merit and intelligence. As witnessed in cities like LA during the Palisades fires, DEI employees are like time bombs waiting to go off in communities across the country. Everything is fine as long as nothing goes wrong, but one crisis event exposes an avalanche of incompetence among DEI managers


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: bungling; dei; disaster; fakeheadline; freak; missouri; stlouis; tornado; weather
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1 posted on 05/24/2025 4:49:44 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose
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To: foundedonpurpose

Great headline. /s


2 posted on 05/24/2025 4:54:55 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Yikes! Don’t click for image of “them” if you are eating breakfast!


3 posted on 05/24/2025 4:56:46 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: foundedonpurpose

MENTALLY ILL!!


4 posted on 05/24/2025 4:56:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..H)
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To: foundedonpurpose

“but one crisis event exposes an avalanche of incompetence among DEI managers”

Yep. Recall the DEI bungling at the outset of the LA and Maui fires. Criminal.


5 posted on 05/24/2025 5:00:12 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (quan)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Missed by the journalist. It dropped in Clayton, bad damage. Respect for our PD for watching out for what little we have left of our properties. There are Parks and school areas set up for tents, provided. By God’s grace. Better than nothing. Every thing is gone.


6 posted on 05/24/2025 5:01:51 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: foundedonpurpose

Remember…grammar is our friend


7 posted on 05/24/2025 5:03:31 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: foundedonpurpose

“CEMA commissioner placed on leave “

Typical for how a government official is treated when they screw up. Probably on “paid leave” until they can find a higher paying position they can promote he/she/it to.


8 posted on 05/24/2025 5:05:03 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Who’s dumber...

The DEI hire...

Or the people who entrusted the DEI hire with their personal safety?


9 posted on 05/24/2025 5:05:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: foundedonpurpose

If you change the headline (as you did), the mods will pull your thread.


10 posted on 05/24/2025 5:07:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: foundedonpurpose

Why not a cell phone interlink? Why not a portable remote device of some manner?
It’s the 21st Century, after all...


11 posted on 05/24/2025 5:17:44 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Horrible, sorry for losses payers up that better outcomes are on the way fast.


12 posted on 05/24/2025 5:17:50 AM PDT by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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13 posted on 05/24/2025 5:28:36 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: foundedonpurpose

That headline was not written with a crayon. But it’s easy to imagine that it was.


14 posted on 05/24/2025 5:29:08 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: albie
Remember…grammar is our friend.

She’s more than our friend: she’s our grammar!

15 posted on 05/24/2025 5:31:41 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: foundedonpurpose

I guess this is the creature who had ONE JOB — and then didn’t do it.

Someone should make a montage of all the DEI hires (freaks) who failed spectacularly. It would be a long video for sure.


16 posted on 05/24/2025 5:32:09 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Yogafist

“Gettin the band from Star Wars back together…”


17 posted on 05/24/2025 5:32:57 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Have a coworker that has changed his name to Sarah as well. Looks about the same except with longer hair. Big dude, overweight, weird.


18 posted on 05/24/2025 5:36:14 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: antidemoncrat

I’m pretty sure it’s a She/He/IT!


19 posted on 05/24/2025 5:43:18 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: foundedonpurpose

But if you go to social media, all you read about is how Trump and Elon have “gutted” FEMA and the NWS.


20 posted on 05/24/2025 5:47:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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