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By CINDY MAHAN
Rapp*k*aaock N«n Staff Writer
Cathie Shiff returned to Rappahannock last Monday night after spending a week working on the rescue in Oklahoma City.
She is a firefighter and paramedic with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue and lives in Amissville. Fairfax County is one of 26 search and rescue teams sanctioned by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). The team from Fairfax flew out of Andrews Air Force base on a C141 transport on Sunday, April 23 and returned the afternoon of May 1.
They took 26,000 pounds of equipment and other items with them, enough to sustain them for 72 hours. Once in Oklahoma City, they worked 12-hour shifts, from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., removing rubble from the bombed building. Huge halogen spotlights lit up the site to allow people to work around the clock.
They used heavy hammer drills and sledgehammers to break up the pieces of concrete so that cranes could remove
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