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them. Sometimes they could see pieces of concrete waving around in the breeze; it was an extremely dangerous operation. Mrs. Shiff said that three or four cranes would be working at once to lift away pieces of concrete. One of them weighed 200,000 pounds, and the workers named it “Mother.”
Mrs. Shiff said they could tell what floor of the building they were working on clearing out when they found desk name tags in the rubble. They also found some bodies, and they were usually found near desks, she said. Near the end of their time there, she said that they began finding toys and other items that were part of the day care center. She said that was the hardest part.
When the rescue workers returned to their cots at night, they would find little presents and letters of appreciation from school children of Oklahoma City. Mrs. Shiff found a little stuffed animal, a
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