April 19, 1995: Civil Air Patrol Among First Responders to Oklahoma City Bombing

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 On this date in 1995, the Civil Air Patrol was among the first first responders to the domestic terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.


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At 9:03:25 a.m. CST, the first of over 1,800 9-1-1 calls related to the bombing was received by Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA). By that time, EMSA ambulances, police, and firefighters were already headed to the scene, having heard the blast. Nearby civilians, who had also witnessed or heard the blast, arrived to assist the victims and emergency workers. Within 23 minutes of the bombing, the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) was set up, consisting of representatives from the state departments of public safety, human services, military, health, and education. Assisting the SEOC were agencies such as the National Weather Service, the Air Force, the Civil Air Patrol, and the American Red Cross.

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March 6, 1950: Time Reports on CAP's Lost Leopard Lookout in OKC

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On this date in 1950, Time magazine reported that the Civil Air Patrol was one of a number of search and rescue groups that joined the search for a leopard that escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo.

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By noon the next day it seemed that half the citizens in town were out on the roads northeast of the city to watch the hunt. A good many, armed to the teeth and accompanied by a rabble of house dogs, joined in the search. The skirmishing took on the look of a Guatemalan revolution. Civil Air Patrol planes flew low. Cops, zookeepers, deputy sheriffs, volunteer gunmen and a detachment of Marine reservists with M-i rifles and walkie-talkie radios scoured the scrub-oak thickets, flushing out rabbits, house cats, and, occasionally, each other.

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Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858642,00.html#ixzz0gWEPVQG7

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