From <@tcuavm.is.tcu.edu:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Mon Feb 9 10:23:27 1998 Return-Path: <@tcuavm.is.tcu.edu:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Received: from server1.capaccess.org (server1.CapAccess.org [207.91.115.5]) by cap1.CapAccess.org (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA07287; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:23:27 -0500 Received: from tcuavm.is.tcu.edu (TCUAVM.IS.TCU.EDU [138.237.128.148]) by server1.capaccess.org (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with SMTP id KAA27390; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:14:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by tcuavm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3850; Mon, 09 Feb 98 09:14:14 CDT Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1031; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:15:05 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 0993 for SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:12:01 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM (NJE origin SMTP@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0992; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:10:20 -0500 Received: from imo14.mx.aol.com by tcubvm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 09 Feb 98 09:06:52 CDT Received: from WAHowland@aol.com by imo14.mx.aol.com (IMOv12/Dec1997) id 4ESMa14250 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:04:24 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 82 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:04:24 EST Reply-To: WAHowland@AOL.COM Sender: Scouts-L Youth Group List From: Wendie Howland Subject: Scouts in rescue, Cape Cod To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L Status: RO X-Status: Hi All, Just returned from the Cape Cod and Islands Arctic Challenge/Klondike Derby weekend. Thought you should see this piece from the Cape Cod Times of Sunday, Feb. 8. SCOUTS TEST MOTTO, SAVE LIVES "Be Prepared" Worked for Teens in Mashpee Emergency by Gwen Friss, staff writer YARMOUTH- For more than a century, the Boy Scouts have been drilling boys on how to work as a team, how to handle an emergency, how to "be prepared." On Friday night, Scoutmaster Steve Purcell saw firsthand how well it's working. Purcell was driving his teenage son and three other members of Mashpee Troop 36 to survival training (Arctic Challenge.. a.b.) when they came on a horrific car crash. One of the Scouts called 911 while the troop leader went to investigate. A dazed woman was huddled by her car on Route 28. Thirty feet into the woods, a man was lying face-down in a pool of blood. Purcell, trained as an emergency medical technician, yelled for his son, Steven, to keep the woman conscious and still. The other Scouts- Mike Cook, 16, Paul Trask, 15, and Stuart Paaschke, 14-- helped roll the man over so he wouldn't choke on his own blood before rescuers arrived. Cook and Paaschke held the struggling man while Purcell bandaged his torn face. "They were awesome," Purcell said. "I think the thing that impresed me the most was they didn't hesitate when I asked them to do something." Luzia Baron, 53, of Hyannis, remained in stable condition yesterday at Cape Cod Hospital. Peter F. Accolla, 34, of Ocala, Florida, was in critical condition at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "It's helpful when people who know how to do the right thing stop and help. Unfortunately, most people don't know and don't stop," said Mashpee fire chief George Baker. (an Eagle Scout..a.b.) Baker said help from the well-trained Scouts and the fact that Mashpee rescue workers were able to stabilize Accolla quickly for a helicopter flight to Boston likely saved his life that night. Trask's father, Rick, who is a call firefighter for Mashpee, said, "It's a credit to the troop that they had this training in place. You never know if the kids are picking up on this stuff, but apparently they were." After the Mashpee and Cotuit fire departments arrived, Purcell drove the Scouts to Camp Greenough in Yarmouth. They took a break from the shelter they were building yesterday to talk about Friday's crash. "It wasn't really scary for me until it was over," Cook said, noting the crash was nothing like he would expect, having seen television and newspaper reports of accidents. "It's not edited. You see everything as it's happening, and you're right in the middle of it." The younger Purcell said the accident scene felt almost surreal because a car radio was still blasting in the woods. As he knelt next to the injured woman, he could smell gas and hear the van behind him hissing. He worried it might explode. "I was asking her name, if she remembered what happened," he said. "There's all these questions you're supposed to ask somebody with a head injury, but after a while it's instinct. You don't really have to think about what's next." The teenagers said they felt good that five years of first aid training canme through when they needed it. Troop performance, the quartet still has to take -and pass- this weeken'd's first aid test. (The article was on the front page of the Cape Cod Times, and was accompanied by a picture of the four Scouts. It was a followup to the original one in the Saturday paper, which prominently noted the Scouts' actions but noted that they had left before news photographers and reporters arrived on the scene. The reporter and photog came down to camp the next day to locate, identify, and interview them. The staff read the Saturday article to the assembled Scouts and Scouters at Saturday breakfast and the boys were recognized by all present in camp, including many parents and boys who arrived Sunday for the Klondike, at the awards ceremony on Sunday afternoon, with a standing ovation.) I was not one of the people who helped train Troop 36. But as someone who teaches the First Aid MB I was proud of the fact that Scouting played a pivotal part in their competence at this scene. This is an important example to show people that Boy Scouts prepare young people for the "real world." Kudos to Troop 36, SM Purcell, and Paul, Mike, Stu, and Steve. YiS Auntie Beans ASM T44 Pocasset MA Cape Cod & Islands Council Abake MiSaNaKi Lodge #393 NSJ 1997 Nat'l Health & Safety I useta be an Eagle... '...We're our counselor's greatest fans, But we're getting out of Gilwell while we can!' NEI-188