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Tragic tornado brings out best in boy scouts.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
It was about 6:35 in the evening on June 11. Ninety-three Boy Scouts, aged 13 to 17, along with 25 scouting staff members, were gathered to attend a weeklong leadership training camp at the 1,800-acre Little Sioux Scout Ranch in the Loess Hills of Iowa, about 40 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska.
The boys were in two groups, one in the campground, the other out hiking. Taylor Willoughby, 13, recalled that he and several other Scouts were getting ready to watch a movie when a voice called out that a tornado was approaching. Everyone hunkered down, he said, and windows shattered.
"It sounded like a jet that was flying by really close," Taylor told NBC's Today show the next day. "I was hoping that we all made it out OK. I was afraid for my life."
Another Scout, Ethan Hession, crawled under a table with his friend. He told Today: "I just remember looking over at my friend, and all of a sudden he just says to me, 'Dear God, save us.' Then I just closed my eyes and all of a sudden [the tornado was] gone." Ethan told reporters that he and other Scouts acted as quickly as they could, a direct result of their Boy Scout training and their observance of the Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared": "We knew that we need to place tourniquets on wounds that were bleeding too much. We knew we need to apply pressure and gauze. We had first-aid kits, we had everything."
It also helped that the boys had been through an emergency preparedness drill just the day before the disaster, Lloyd Roitstein, president of the Mid-America Council of Boy Scouts of America, told reporters: "Last night, the agencies and the Scouts were prepared. They knew what to do, they knew where to go, and they prepared well."
Eighteen-year-old Eagle Scout and staff member Thomas White dug through what remained of a collapsed fireplace to uncover victims in the bunkhouse where many Scouts sought shelter. White told KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska: "A bunch of us got together and started undoing the rubble from the fireplace and stuff and waiting for the first responders. They were under the tables and stuff and on their knees, but they had no chance."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Tragic tornado brings out best in boy scouts.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)