Priscilla Salyers Priscilla Salyers worked for the U.S. Customs Service on the fifth floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. She was talking with a coworker when the bomb exploded outside the building. The explosion caused her floor to collapse and she fell four stories.

In the following essay, Salyers explains how she was confused by the explosion; at first she thought she was having a heart attack and was embarrassed that her coworker was seeing her in such a state. When she tried to move, however, she discovered that she was buried in concrete rubble. Salyers kept wondering why her coworkers did not come to rescue her. She describes the tremendous relief she felt when rescuers finally found her and the panic that set in when they had to leave her due to a second bomb threat...