JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. -- Jefferson County is the seventh largest county in Missouri, but surprisingly, the county does not have any tornado sirens in its rural areas.
KMOX News Stuart McMillian recently appeared on KMOX Radio's Total Information A.M Monday morning to discuss how there are no tornado sirens at all in the rural areas of the county besides those installed by municipalities in the county.
Warren Robinson, the director at the county's office of Emergency Management told McMillian that the county has been trying to effort and put preliminary figures to see what they can do to install sirens.
However, according to Robinson, the county are hoping to acquire funding so they can install 238 sirens.
Robinson told McMillian that the county is looking to try and install 137 sirens at least so it would cover a majority of the highly populated areas in Jefferson County.
However, there has been some pushback on the plan from those in the area, with concerns of the cost of each siren. Each siren would cost $25,000.
So at minimum, it would take $3.425 million for the county to be able to reach its minimum goal of having a tornado siren in a majority of its highly populated areas.
McMillian explained on the show that grants from the government would be able to help cover the costs of the whole project, with county executives telling him that it was quite reachable to get to that goal, but ways to put that into the county's budget is a still major hurdle in to achieving the goal.