Tornado sirens installed at Blue Springs Lake Park

Things are a little safer for campers at Blue Springs Lake Park thanks to the installation of new outdoor warning sirens.

Jackson County officials had grown worried that there was a gap in the system of sirens and that the only way to warn campers would have been to send out park rangers to spread the word, one on one, to anyone at the 82-site campground.

?It was a huge, really, concern,? County Executive Mike Sanders said.

But sirens aren?t cheap. The Central Jackson Jackson Emergency Management Agency donated two sirens, and two more were purchased. CJC worked with the Lee?s Summit Fire Department, the county?s Emergency Management Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the lake, to make the project together.

?It was a big need that we had. Obviously resources are at a premium for all of us. ? This is a project that?s going to have great for all of us going forward,? Sanders told county legislators on Monday after they passed resolution applauding the inter-agency cooperation.

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