Missouri Task Force 1 heading to St. Louis after heavy damage, fatalities reported after storms
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Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)– Missouri Task Force 1 is heading to St. Louis to help with storm damage recovery.
Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp confirmed through text message that Task Force 1 will soon head out to St. Louis, which saw significant damage from storms.
St. Louis officials had confirmed during a press conference that at least four people were dead.
Task Force 1 is based at the Boone County Fire Protection District Headquarters. The task force had been deployed within the state twice last month after flooding and tornadoes damaged a southeastern Missouri town and Pilot Grove in Cooper County.
Ameren’s outage map shows a significant number of people without power in the St. Louis areas, with St. Louis County seeing 45,342 customers without power; St. Louis City having 40,103 and Jefferson County totaling 11,568.
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