Oklahoma City bombing Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Humanitarian aid=== The national humanitarian response was immediate, and in some cases even overwhelming. Large numbers of items such as wheelbarrows, bottled water, helmet lights, knee pads, rain gear, and even football helmets were donated.<ref name="USDJ2"/><ref name="Apocalypse623"/> The sheer quantity of such donations caused logistical and inventory control problems until drop-off centers were set up to accept and sort the goods.<ref name="Terrorism Info"/> The Oklahoma Restaurant Association, which was holding a trade show in the city, assisted rescue workers by providing 15,000 to 20,000 meals over ten days.<ref name="Unfinished47">{{cite book|last=Linenthal|first=Edward|title=The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory|page=47|isbn=978-0-19-516107-6|year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> [[The Salvation Army]] served over 100,000 meals and provided over 100,000 ponchos, gloves, hard hats, and knee pads to rescue workers.<ref name="SADonations">{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=$10 million collected for bombing victims|work=[[The Pantagraph]]|date=June 5, 1995}}</ref> Local residents and those from further afield responded to the requests for [[blood donation]]s.<ref name="Apocalypse60">{{cite book|title=Apocalypse in Oklahoma|last=Hamm|first=Mark S|page=60|isbn=978-1-55553-300-7|year=1997|publisher=Northeastern University Press }}</ref><ref name="SDBB">{{cite web|title=San Diego Blood Bank History |publisher=San Diego Blood Bank |url=http://www.sandiegobloodbank.org/about_us/history.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302080328/http://www.sandiegobloodbank.org/about_us/history.php |archive-date=March 2, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Of the over 9,000 units of blood donated, 131 were used; the rest were stored in [[blood bank]]s.<ref name="GAO">{{cite web|last=Heinrich|first=Janet|title=Maintaining an Adequate Blood Supply Is Key to Emergency Preparedness|publisher=[[Government Accountability Office]]|url=http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d021095t.pdf|date=September 10, 2002|access-date=September 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105302/http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d021095t.pdf|archive-date=December 24, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page