Word: kluttz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having been at the scene of the disaster, Kluttz says he hopes officials do not release video footage of the nursery when rescue workers reach it. Officials announced yesterday that they had begun work at excavating the nursery and social security office, some of the areas most devastated by the blast...
...Kluttz said one of the most unsettling aspects of the whole rescue effort in Oklahoma City was its remarkable quiet...
According to Kluttz, the ordeal rescue workers faced was so traumatic that many would not go into the mass of steel and concrete without a chaplain...
...Kluttz says he was particularly struck by the gruesome process of identifying the bodies, especially those of children. Since in many cases rescuers could find only pieces of bodies, some had to go to homes to do things like lift finger prints off of cribs so that identifications could be made...
According to Kluttz the rescue work was draining, even for search and rescue dogs...