| Collection |
Oklahoma City National Memorial--Hillmann & Carr |
| Date |
2000 |
| Description |
This is a videotaped interview with Gary Marrs, Chief of the Oklahoma City Fire Department during rescue and recovery in 1995. Chief Marrs discusses his experiences on the morning of 04/19/1995, Mayor's prayer breakfast, feeling the explosion, locating the bombing, emergency/rescue plan, EMSA, disaster planning with FEMA, natural disasters, incorporating crime scene considerations into the rescue/recovery efforts, determining that a bomb had been used, cooperation among the rescue agencies, control of the site, volunteers, adapting to changing conditions, second bomb scare, organization into rescue teams, rescue efforts in other buildings, rescue workers from other areas, 24 hour rescue/recovery effort for 14 days, morale, maintaining the effort, eventually calling off the recovery, rescue/recovery at Murrah Building differed from normal efforts in that it was prolonged and more intense than normal operations, Critical Incident Stress Management for the rescuers, debriefings. BetacamSP.
Chief Marrs was one of the original appointees to the Oklahoma City National Memorial Trust Board by President Clinton. |
| Object ID |
3844.15 |
| Object Name |
Cassette, Videotape |
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