ERRORS UNMASKED

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ERRORS UNMASKED

Fri, 04/24/2020 - 03:32
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LIBERTY – Emergency management leaders from Clay and Ray counties said they received and distributed faulty safety masks to first responders. The same situation occurred across Missouri. Ray County Emergency Management Agency Assistant Director Carl A. Harper Jr. wants to know why the state sent him inadequate safety masks, many of which he distributed before the state issued a recall. “Seven-hundred and thirty-one masks I passed out that were no good,” he said. Harper said no one told him what rendered the masks inadequate. “Nobody is saying,” he said. “They said they do not meet the specifications.” In Clay County, Emergency Management Agency Director Will Akin said he received 765 masks from the state, which went to every fire department in the county, except Excelsior Springs. “I had masks for them, but I couldn’t get the schedules in tune; we actually never delivered those masks,” Akin said. Nearby Kearney and Smithville are among departments that received masks. “The…

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