Rich Hill Missouri Fire Department

Be weather aware, Additional rounds of thunderstorms are expected today and on into Saturday creating the potential for additional heavy rainfall. A flash flood watch is out for the entire area through Saturday morning. Thunderstorms are expected to be most numerous after 3 PM today. Some of the stronger storms today into tonight could produce wind gusts to 65 mph, or hail to the size of half dollars. Expected rainfall for our area today is 2-3.

We would like to give a big THANK YOU to Dollar Tree in Butler for the generous donation of several cases of water for our first responders. Thank you so much! Remember with the extremely hot weather we are encountering to stay hydrated when you’re outdoors.

Due to issues with the city substation power will be out in Rich Hill in some of the area. We will be back up as soon as possible. UPDATE: The time we believe... it will take to repair this issue is approx. 3 hrs Update: City power has been corrected and faster than originally expected. GREAT WORK CREW!

We will be conducting our monthly siren testing at 10:00 this morning.