Kelsey Landis

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Kelsey Landis

Share ST. LOUIS — City workers have begun to inspect houses hit by Friday’s tornado, placing color-coded stickers on doors that declare whether entry is safe or prohibited. Green tags mean the structure is safe. Red ones say: “Danger. Entry prohibited. Violators subject to prosecution.” The stickers are not meant to condemn homes, Mayor Cara Spencer said. She acknowledged on Thursday that condemnations would begin at some point, but she didn’t know when.

2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Kelsey Landis

ST. LOUIS — City workers have begun to inspect houses hit by Friday’s tornado, placing color-coded stickers on doors that declare whether entry is safe or prohibited. Green tags mean the structure is safe. Red ones say: “Danger. Entry prohibited. Violators subject to prosecution.”The stickers are not meant to condemn homes, Mayor Cara Spencer said. She acknowledged on Thursday that condemnations would begin at some point, but she didn’t know when.

2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Kelsey Landis

ST. LOUIS — The button at the St. Louis Fire Department that activates the city's tornado sirens was not working when a tornado tore through St. Louis on Friday, the city's mayor said on Wednesday. Mayor Cara Spencer said the city learned in a test of the system on Tuesday that the button, one of two that turns on the sirens, wasn't properly functioning. Moreover, she said, city emergency management chief Sarah Russell was not clear when asking the fire department to activate the sirens.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Kelsey Landis

"If the sirens went off, her life would've been saved," he said on Tuesday. "She would've had time to get to the basement." ST. LOUIS — The administration of Mayor Cara Spencer on Tuesday still didn't offer details on went wrong when sirens failed to properly activate before the tornado that killed five and injured dozens. Moreover, official statements since the tornado have often contradicted each other. "It is a very sensitive issue, and I want to be very, very accurate in this," Spencer said.

2 weeks ago | stltoday.com | Kelsey Landis |Nassim Benchaabane

ST. LOUIS — The administration of Mayor Cara Spencer on Tuesday still didn't offer details on went wrong when sirens failed to properly activate before the tornado that killed five and injured dozens. Moreover, official statements since the tornado have often contradicted each other. "It is a very sensitive issue, and I want to be very, very accurate in this," Spencer said. Anger, however, continued to mount on Tuesday.