Last week, a tornado in a Chicago suburb led to the deployment of the Ameren Illinois Midwest Mutual Assistance Network. Mobile crews of Ameren lineman from across the state were deployed to help with downed power lines, power poles and to restore electricity across the affected areas. Riley Adams from Ameren Illinois says the program takes crews across the state and even across the Midwest to restore safe electricity to affected areas as quickly as possible...

Adams says that the Midwest Mutual Assistance Network is urgently important. When major disasters happen, the network brings in help not just from around the area of the disaster but from surrounding midwestern states, if needed for a major disaster.