Tribal fire crews help Columbia search effort

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2003

Several Oklahoma tribes have sent their fire crews to Texas to help find debris from the space shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated upon re-entry to Earth last Saturday.

The Cherokee Firedancers, the Pawnee Fire Scouts, the Iowa Tribe and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation sent teams to help out. Members of the Cherokee, Caddo, Comanche, Cheyenne- Arapaho, Iowa, Sac & Fox, Kiowa and Creek tribes are represented.

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Tribal firefighters aid in search (The Daily Oklahoman 2/11)

Relevant Links:
NASA - http://www.nasa.gov

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