COLUMBIA, Mo. – Emergency management officials from across Missouri are meeting at an annual conference to discuss lessons learned from a host of in-state disasters that occurred so far this year. They are also planning for future events, including the FIFA World Cup.

From widespread winter storms to over 100 tornadoes alone, safety officials from all corners of the state have been tested in 2025 by some of Mother Nature’s worst.

”We had lots of wildfires, we had flooding going on as well as tornadoes,” Terry Cassil, deputy director of the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency, said. “There's a lot of lessons learned from those communities that went through those things.”

With seismic and atmospheric threats always lurking, the job of an emergency manager is 24-7.

“With emergency

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