MONTGOMERY, AL - Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange says the City of Montgomery was spared from personal injuries and wide scale property damage during today’s severe weather.  Mayor Strange is also praising the swift response by City crews to today’s storm.  “It’s during times of emergency like this, that Montgomery employees have their finest hour,” the Mayor said.

Employees from the City’s Public Safety Division (Police, Fire & Rescue, Communications) and multiple other departments (Parks & Recreation, Emergency Management, Sanitation, Building Maintenance, Street Maintenance, Engineering, 311, Inspections, Mayor’s Office) worked in a coordinated effort to respond to the severe weather and resulting damage.  “The first damage reports came in from the area behind Fire Station Four on Air Base Boulevard.  The system traveled northeast to Cloverdale and then toward Wares Ferry Road,” reports Montgomery EMA director Steve Jones.

Montgomery, Ala.? Montgomery Public School students and teachers are heeding the call to help fellow Alabamians who were devastated by last week’s deadly tornadoes.

According to published reports, last Wednesday's tornadoes marked the second-deadliest day of tornadoes in U.S. history, leaving 341 people dead across seven states ? including 249 in Alabama. Thousands were hurt and hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed. In response, Montgomery Public Schools offered Tuscaloosa City Schools seven busses to help transport students, and MPS schools have begun collecting toiletries, canned food, clothing and money to support relief efforts across the state.

The Robert E. Lee High School Hall of Fame Banquet scheduled for tonight has be rescheduled for Saturday, April 16, 2011, at 6 p.m. due to the possibility of severe weather.