Crime & Safety

No Injuries in Maplewood, Brentwood from Severe Storm

The storm blew the chimney off Saratoga Lanes. Large branches and wires were downed across the entire area.

Maplewood and Brentwood survived the violent thunderstorm that swept St. Louis with little more than downed branches and electrical wires.

Dispatchers for both cities reported no injuries.

Jason Neubauer, a dispatcher with the St. Louis County East Central Police Dispatch, said there were some brush fires that resulted, but they were extinguished. East Central Dispatch covers Maplewood, Richmond Heights, Webster Groves, Clayton and Olivette.

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Around Maplewood, tree limbs were blocking Lohmeyer Avenue, Commomwealth Avenue, the 7200 block of Gayola Place, and Princeton Place at Bruno Avenue. Electrical wires were also down in some of those locations.

The was on the scene in the 7200 block of Rule Avenue where a large branch fell across a house, but it missed the electrical wires.

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Neubauer said in some cases the roads will have to remain closed until the electric company can take care of the downed wires.

On Sutton Boulevard, a chimney blew off the building and landed in parking lot. Fortunately it landed in one of the few empty parking spots in the lot.

A dispatcher said downed branches and wires were the extent of the damage there.


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