community place at the church within 13 hours of setting up. “It was phenomenal; it was a miracle in and of itself,” McCann says. “The church responded very quickly to put (volunteer) personnel into those positions. One of them was a brigadier general, a hospital administrator, attorneys … highly gifted people that the church had as human resources.” In all, McCann volunteered 10 days of his time to help those affected by the explosion. Though donations were pouring in from Indianapolis residents over the days and weeks that followed, more than anything, he explains, it wasn’t material assistance these neighbors and friends were after. “They had the attitude that this is all stuff; it can be replaced,” he says. But their kids couldn’t “sleep at night. They didn’t know what caused it (the explosion) for at least a week.” For more information on becoming CERT trained, visit indy.gov/eGov/City/ DPS/DHS/Preparedness/Pages/cert.aspx. For more information on ReadyIndy, visit readyindy.org.
Ben McCann sits in his Franklin office where streams of information come in during an emergency.
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