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Photo by Skip Lawrence
Boy Scouts from Troop 277 practice first aid on the victim of a simulated accident during the Boy Scouts First Aid Meet, held in Walkersville on Saturday. The victim is Grant Wigfield, 12. Applying first aid are Caleb Hubble, 12, left, and
Benton McCarthy, 12.
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WALKERSVILLE -- Four Boy Scouts took an edge of a large tarp and folded it first on one end, then the other.The tarp had poles wrapped in it, forming a makeshift stretcher. The four rolled a fellow Scout who was pretending to be a patient gently onto the tarp. "One, two, three -- lift," said Myersville Scout Daniel LeTexier. Together they hoisted the patient into the air. This was one of many first aid skills that would be demonstrated at the all-county First Aid Meet in the activities hall of Calvary Assembly on Saturday evening. About 200 Scouts from 32 troops were expected, according to Linda Sundergill, the event's marketing chairwoman. The troops broke into groups and each group was judged as a team to answer questions and demonstrate skills, she said. The judges rotated from group to group. The questions were based on the most current information known according to the CPR standards, Sundergill said. All the judges were emergency care responders. The meet would take about two hours to complete, she said. Beforehand, while Scouts were warming up, a Myersville Scout, Will Paire, said he had done this meet three times before. "It's nerve-racking," Paire said. "You don't want to mess around at all." He said he couldn't remember which part was the most difficult, but he could remember which part was the most fun. "Leaving," he said. "We got pizza afterwards." Another Scout, James Writer, was nervous, but this was his first time, he said. "I want to be an EMT," he said. The meet, founded in 1960, allows Scouts to apply points earned by correctly answering questions and demonstrating skills toward merit badges. A special-needs crew was at the meet. Members weren't restricted to the regular age limitations of 12 to 18 to participate. Richard Munday, 49, said he's been in the last 10 consecutive meets. His favorite part was going over the questions.
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