Emergency Preparedness

The largest military drill in St. Louis history involved hundreds of emergency personnel working across the region. Training followed the National Guard’s three-day plan for a major earthquake along the New Madrid Fault line.

Disaster drills Monday through Wednesday will close some downtown streets to make room for military vehicles, helicopters and hundreds of federal responders to simulate a response in the St. Louis region.

Highcroft Ridge Elementary School is the first school to implement new school building codes that will help first responders.

Emergency responders in St. Louis are among the first to receive the anthrax vaccine as part of a federal program to inoculate local personnel.Health…

St. Louis is getting a chance to test how smart sensors can help city departments respond better to emergencies.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security…

If a major disaster were to strike the St. Louis area, odds are the St. Louis County Emergency Operations Center near Ballwin would be swarming with…

The St. Louis region faces a wide range of potential public health crises, including natural disasters like tornados and floods, infectious disease…

Nearly all first responders throughout St. Charles County are now able to talk to one another.That's because the county has finished building a new, $34…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 15, 2013 - A few days after 9/11, LaFaye Young drove from St. Louis to New York in emergency…

This morning, residents of Missouri, Illinois, and seven other Central U.S. states participated in an earthquake preparedness drill.The annual event is…