Devastating tornados rolled through Missouri last week, in which five people were killed, and the DEI Commissioner of the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) and her staff were at a workshop, and failed to activate the tornado sirens.

This DEI hire, who uses They/Them pronouns, has now been placed on leave by the mayor.

Here’s more from Fox St Louis:

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has placed Sarah Russell, the Commissioner of the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), on leave following a failure of the city’s tornado sirens during last week’s deadly storm.

The decision to put Russell on paid administrative leave comes as an internal investigation is launched into the actions of her office on the day of the tornado. The sirens, which are crucial for alerting residents to severe weather, did not sound as a tornado caused major damage in parts of St. Louis.