When the severe weather hits, it is best to be prepared. Monmouth Fire Chief Casey Rexroat offers this guidance when it comes to putting together an emergency kit for your family:
“As we get into the spring weather, on the FEMA website, they do have a checklist for kits. You can go to ready.gov and download that. They recommend having at least a gallon of water for each person in the house per day, having an extra cell phone battery or charger, flashlights, first aid kits, towels or paper towels, and then non-perishable food.”
As for the activation of warning sirens throughout Warren County, Chief Rexroat reminds residents what they indicate:
“With the siren activation, a lot of people when these storms start coming in, they start wondering why the sirens are going off. Generally, we will activate the sirens for tornado warnings, that doesn’t necessarily mean that with a tornado warning we would activate sirens in the entire county. In addition to the tornado warning, we will activate sirens for winds in excess of 70 miles per hour, and lastly, we will activate the sirens for hail that is predicted to be golf ball size or larger.”
Additionally, the Monmouth Fire Department applied for a grant through the Office of the State Fire Marshal to complete some upgrades at Station 2, which would include fixing the truck bay floor, replacement of the HVAC system, an emergency generator, and upgrading the lighting to LED.
