now 29 years later, barneveld has come back bigger than ever. wisconsin 1984. e awesome apocalyptic forces of nature. we lost everything but not on that scale. everything that we had as a community was flattened. barneveld can serve as a roadmap for oklahoma because they proved that life can eventually return to normal. volunteers were the first to step up. . >> different image and mennonites came and helped and helped for weeks and months. they truly did. rebuilding per? anything you wanted done. they began with burying victims and then they took baby steps one after another. hauling everything else,, you cannot rebuild until you get rid of the trash. they must clear away the debris in oklahoma and that is what they did here in barneveld wisconsin scraping away everything and dumping it here in the town cory and setting it on fire so they could begin a new. in 1984 of the barneveld fire department was useless after it the building caved in bearing the trucks under debris. now there are two modern buildings and new trucks and the local bank which suffer damage h