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Murrah Federal Building moments after the explosion. April 19, , in downtown Oklahoma City. Shannon was one of the first to arrive on scene following the terrorist attack. People injured in the car bomb blast at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City gather near the explosion site. The blast killed people, including 19 children, and injured hundreds more. A woman is restrained by relatives and police after learning her child was trapped in a day care facility at the Alfred Murrah Federal Building, April 19, , in downtown Oklahoma City.
American Tragedy.
On 19 April , a US army veteran parked a rental truck packed full of explosives outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City and fled the scene, detonating his bomb just as the work day was starting. The attack, motivated by anti-government extremist beliefs, killed people and left hundreds more injured.
At the time, it was the deadliest terror attack the US had ever seen. It remains the worst committed by an American on US soil. This is the story of the bombing, told through five people whose lives it forever changed. You may find some of the details in this story upsetting. It was a beautiful spring morning in America’s heartland. Kevin McCullough, an Oklahoma police officer and medical technician, was on his way to spend his day off speaking to a group of children at a local church.
Robin Marsh, a local television reporter, was in a planning meeting for the day ahead. Firefighter Chris Fields and his colleagues were going to spend their Wednesday catching up on maintenance jobs around the station. They’d just relieved another group from a hour shift and were about to get themselves some breakfast.
Aren Almon didn’t work in the Alfred P Murrah building herself, but lived nearby. The office block, made up of nine floors of reinforced concrete, was a hub of government offices. On any given day more than workers would be inside. The building also had a day-care centre, America’s Kids, on its second floor.
On the morning of 19 April Aren dropped off her daughter there before heading to her new job six miles away. Baylee had celebrated her first birthday the day before. For Ruth Schwab, the school run had gone smoother than normal. The mother of five got to her job at the Department for Housing and Urban Development earlier than normal that day, just before She had just sat down at her desk and was reaching to turn on her computer when the bomb exploded.
It was the loudest noise she had heard in her life. Thousands of pounds of fertiliser and fuel had ignited, causing a massive explosion to rip through the building’s nine levels.
The blast was so strong that it completely tore away the building’s north side. Floors within the crater became a tangled concrete heap. Cars parked nearby were engulfed in flames, sending thick black smoke into the city’s air.
The last thing Ruth remembers is feeling like she was tumbling down and down into a black hole. For miles around, Oklahomans felt their floors tremble.
The fire station’s windows rattled. Kevin McCullough’s ambulance shook. It was on a Wednesday morning and Oklahoma City would never be the same again. Chris Fields and the rest of Station 5 ran outside when they heard the blast. Seeing the smoke so close, they knew they’d be asked to help. They jumped in their engines and sped downtown, stopping along the way to help people injured by flying glass and debris. Urgent calls went in to all first responders. Kevin McCullough turned his ambulance around and raced the few miles to the Murrah building.
After parking up, he was confronted with the overwhelming and unmistakable smell of nitrates in the air. The bomb had made downtown Oklahoma City smell like a gun range. People were panicked,” Kevin says. Some were standing dumbstruck – unable to comprehend what had just happened. Others had made their own way out of the destruction, covered in blood and dust. When Ruth Schwab woke up, she was on her office floor.
She’d been facing the direction where the bomb went off and her face had taken the brunt of her injuries. She called out to ask if anyone was there. A friend answered back and warned her not to move. Ruth couldn’t see but she was surrounded by debris and was only feet from where the eighth floor had collapsed beneath them. Her friend helped her up, sat her down and in a kind gesture, gave her a handkerchief.
It took just minutes for local news to start covering the attack. The network’s staff had felt their building shake 10 miles away so they quickly re-routed a news helicopter that had been on the way to another story. The footage it captured, as it slowly circled the building, sent shockwaves. A giant horse-shoe shaped hole had been gouged out of the Murrah building. The network immediately dispatched all available reporters to the scene.
Like others around the city, Aren had felt the blast miles away. It seemed like thunder, but the Oklahoma City sky was bright blue. Could it have been a demolition? There was always building work going on downtown. When colleagues said it was an explosion, Aren went to find a television in the break room and saw the helicopter footage. The building where she’d left her daughter was in ruins. Aren called her parents and a colleague drove her as close as they could get.
When they reached the building, Aren and her family found a scene of chaos. Downtown Oklahoma City looked like a war zone. Scores of buildings had been damaged by the blast.
No-one had the answers they needed. So they headed to local hospitals to try and find Baylee there. About an hour and a half after the explosion, a message came over Chris Fields’s radio to evacuate.
They thought they’d found another bomb. Most had assumed this was a natural gas leak or an accident. No one dared to imagine this could have been done intentionally. The news of the bomb scare sent people running from the scene.
Among them was reporter Robin Marsh, who was broadcasting live when an official ran toward her telling her to evacuate. We’ve got to move further away’,” she remembers. As the chaos unfolded, local news stations became a vital source of information.
They told people who to call and where to go for help. But in a place like Oklahoma City, the tragedy hit close to home. Some of those reporting, including Robin, knew and lost people inside that day. By , Ruth Schwab had arrived at the hospital. She had tried walking out the building at first, but with the stairs thick with debris she was eventually passed to a rescuer and carried out.
Ruth was still blinded and doctors knew they were in a race to save her eyes. It wasn’t until the second scare that Kevin McCullouch moved around the building and saw where all the injured people had been pouring from. He’d been on murder calls and traffic accidents before but had never seen devastation like this. The main job for firefighters was search and rescue. At one point, as he walked around the building, a police officer appeared in front of him with a critical infant in his arms.
Trained in first aid, Chris offered to take her. He cleared her throat, which was blocked with concrete or insulation dust debris, to try and open her airway.
But with what appeared to be a skull fracture too, there was no sign of life. Chris carried the baby’s tiny frame to an ambulance. The paramedic looked at Chris: his vehicle was already full. There were already people on its floor and lying on the ground outside waiting to be transported. The firefighter held and looked down at her as he waited. Chris had a son close to her age and his thoughts immediately went to her family: “I was just looking at her thinking: ‘Somebody’s world is getting ready to be turned upside down today’.
He would not realise it for hours, but two photographers had captured that exact moment. The image of an Oklahoma City firefighter cradling a lifeless baby, covered in dust and blood, became the most famous of the day. The image, which we have chosen not to reprint, conveyed both the cruelty of the day and the city’s loss of innocence. But for Aren Almon, the loss was more than symbolic. Chris had been holding her daughter. Throughout the morning, she and her parents had bounced between hospitals trying to get information.
It was only when Baylee’s paediatrician came around the corner with a priest that Aren’s worst fears were realised. As a single mother, her life had revolved around her daughter. Nobody in my family had ever died,” she says. Reports spread throughout Wednesday that the bomb could have been linked to international terrorism.
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