This year’s annual camping trip at Jester Park by Norwalk’s Boy Scouts of America Troop 301 included a visit from members of the Granger Volunteer Fire Department, who instructed the scouts working on their search-and-rescue merit badges.
The Granger firefighters “came out and spent a few hours with the boys,” said Norwalk Scout volunteer Matt Hill, “teaching them different questions to ask in the event someone was missing and various search techniques, and then they performed a live search-and-rescue drill to find a missing scout that was located in a ravine with a broken leg.”
Hill said the scouts learned how to communicate, report their findings, stay safe and perform different first aid tactics in making a stretcher and splinting the leg of the “victim” in order to raise him out of the ravine.
“The firefighters then joined the boys for dinner as a thank you for their time,” Hill said. He said the Norwalk scouts were grateful to the Granger volunteers for sharing their time and expertise with them.
