Oklahoma- First Responders.

[sheshe2]

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Moore police dig through the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (Sue Ogrocki / AP)



A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)

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A boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometer) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on the elementary school. (Sue Ogrocki / AP)







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Our hearts go out to Oklahoma~Kansas~Iowa.
We are with you.

[ProSense]

1. Devastating. n/t

[MichiganVote]

2. Shout out to the teachers who kept the children as safe as they could.

[Gin]

3. How awful......the panic and shock are evident in those young faces.

Bless them all.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Awful.

I wonder how many of them have family of their own that are in need of help...

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. More than a few

This is what makes first responders special in many ways.

[spanone]

5. ...

[janlyn]

6. bad memories

Seeing these pictures bring back all the fears.being in a huge tornado is something you won't easily forget. My heart is filled with sorrow for allnthe victims and their families!!!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

9. +1

If I may ask, which one?

[liberal from boston]

7. Moore Oklahoma Tornado

Heartbreaking--My prayers & thought are with you All Moore, Oklahoma.

[malaise]

8. And they're all government workers

I want them around when I face disasters

[sheshe2]

11. We had those government workers here, Malaise,

In Boston. We thank our lucky stars, just as Oklahoma, we are all happy for their first response.

Just like the civilian response, putting themselves in harms way so selflessly, to aid the fallen.

to them all!

[malaise]

12. Yep

The teachers also rock!!!

[Cha]

13. oh dear :(

Incredible they're coming out of that rubble.

Mahalo to First Responders who are pulling the little sweethearts out.

thank you, she

[matt819]

14. Amazing photos

Really capture the devastation and intensity of the storm as well as of the first responders and survivors.

[Botany]

15. text 90999 and send the word red cross to send $10.00

n/t

[JPZenger]

16. After WTC collapse, firefighters used to hide in the rubble so search dogs wouldn't get depressed

A couple days after the WTC collapse, the search dogs were only finding bodies. They had been trained to mainly find survivors and were getting depressed. As a result, some of the firefighters started to hide in the rubble so that the search dogs could find them and feel that they were doing some good.

[Little Star]

17. Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

18. i always though the first responders here were the teachers that used their bodies

to save their students' lives.

i keep forgetting. we teachers are nation's whipping boys for all social ills. when we do something good, the first responders get all the press.

teachers are a dime a dozen. and i makes teachers like me sick to my stomach