The Bombing (and Survival) of Charlene Dell

A little more than two months before Timothy McVeigh and former Decker resident Terry Nichols committed the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995, there was another bombing that rocked the thumb area. It wasn’t of any government building— in fact, it didn’t target a building, or a group of people, but just one person. That person was Charlene Dell, and as she stepped out of her office that February afternoon, engulfed in flames, no one expected her to come out the other side. But she did, and this is her story.

 

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