COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) FEMA has estimated that there is $2.1 million in damage to the electric system in Rolla, roughly a week-and-a-half after a tornado devastated the region, according to a Tuesday evening social media post from Rolla Municipal Utilities. Power outages have plagued city residents since the outset of the storm. City Utilities wrote
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A utility crew from the City of Columbia is expected to aid with the storm damage response in Rolla until the end of the week, according to an email from Utilities spokesman Matt Nestor. Crews from several cities were sent to the Phelps County city after it was devastated by a tornado
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two teenagers were seriously injured in a crash on Interstate 44 at mile marker 170, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report does not state which man was driving the 2005 Ford F-150. The crash occurred as the truck was heading eastbound and went off the
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office announced in a Thursday press release that FEMA will participate in preliminary damage assessment for storms that rolled through Missouri last week. Kehoe’s office asked FEMA to join the assessment on Monday. Joint PDA teams are made up of representatives from FEMA, SEMA, the U.S. Small Business Administration
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men from Phelps County have been charged with stealing more than $750 after they allegedly took 60 feet of fence paneling near a supermarket after a tornado. Michael James McClearn and Ryan Dale Stagner, both of Newburg, Missouri, were arrested. McClearn posted a $25,000 bond on Wednesday, while Stagner is still
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Cleanup efforts continued in Rolla Tuesday, four days after an EF-2 tornado tore through the city.
When Rolla Public School cancelled classes for the week after the devastating storm, some students rallied together to help their community.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Utilities shared on Tuesday that a crew from Water & Light was sent to Rolla to assist in restoring electric services after a recent tornado hit the area. Columbia Utilities spokesman Matt Nestor said the group has been in Rolla since Sunday. They are expecting the team to be working out
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Governor Mike Kehoe announced Tuesday that Missouri is requesting assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Friday’s deadly storms.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state of Missouri has requested that FEMA participate in joint preliminary damage assessments after storms devastated a number of counties on Friday night, according to a Monday press release from the governor’s office. The request is the start of the process of getting federal assistance, the release says. “As I observed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Members of the Columbia Fire Department and other agencies went to Rolla after the area was devastated by storms on Friday night. CFD Assistant Fire Chief Lester Shewmake was among those who responded after the tornado hit. He said seeing the destruction left behind gave a “different feeling.” “I’ve been down there quite
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Rolla Public Schools announced Sunday that schools will be closed all week. According to a social media post from the district, due to the extensive damage to buildings caused by Friday night’s storm, school will not be in session this week. The days are not expected to impact the calendar or
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) Various members of the community worked from Friday night through Saturday to help with recovery efforts after the City of Rolla was hit by a tornado Friday. “It’s the community we work in, community we live in and I mean, every law enforcement that’s there, first responder, it’s home and it’s hard
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Traffic on Interstate 44 west of Rolla was backed up more than 20 miles Wednesday after a morning crash. The Missouri Department of Transportation said in a news release that I-44 westbound was closed in Phelps County at mile marker 176 near Rolla due to weather-related incidents. MoDOT reported the road
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old was hospitalized after crashing his motorcycle in Phelps County Saturday morning. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the teenager was riding a 2009 Kawasaki motorcycle on Highway 63, about 15 miles south of Rolla at 11:47 a.m. His motorcycle hit a deer, and he was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 59-year old man was shot in Phelps County on Sunday morning, the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department wrote on its Facebook page on Monday. The sheriff’s office wrote that deputies were called at 10:37 a.m. to the 19000 block of Highway 63 South, about 10 miles south of Rolla. The post says
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Royal Canin will permanently close its manufacturing plant in Rolla. The company – which specializes in making pet food – sent a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification to the state on Tuesday. The plant at 1700 Bridge School Road will cease production on April 18 and the plant itself will be
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas City man was charged with four felonies after he was accused of stabbing two men on Monday at a restaurant in St. James. Patricio Padilla, 45, was charged with first-degree harassment, second-degree assault, first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail on a
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man was seriously hurt after a crash in Phelps County at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The report states a 63-year-old man was driving a Motto Guzzi motorcycle eastbound on I-44 at mm 189 when he experienced a tire failure,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 78-year-old man was killed in single-vehicle crash Wednesday on Interstate 44 near the 158-mile marker in Pulaski County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says that a 2016 Ram 1500 – driven by a 36-year-old man from Lebanon, Missouri – was heading westbound when
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Odessa man pleaded guilty to five felonies in a December 2023 crash that knocked out power for hundreds of people in Maries County. Jeramy Sisk pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, three counts of first-degree property damage and one count of stealing a car. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
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