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Article: New Programs Spell Relief For Troubled Rescue Workers.(Brief Article)
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- The NonProfit Times
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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In more than six years as director of marketing and communications for the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross, Matt Bertram has seen more than 100 disasters up close, including the Oklahoma City bombing and Columbine High School shootings.
Even with all of that experience, he was still hit hard by a plane crash that took the lives of several Oklahoma State University basketball players and officials on a snow-covered Colorado prairie in January.
"I mentally prepared myself, but it was very gruesome," Bertram said. "You see plane crashes on TV, but they're totally different in reality. First, it's shocking, then you just do your job, then you go ...