Archive for September 2007

Rescuers Find Scouts in N.C. Mountains

From the AP, via SFGate:

Waynesville, N.C. (AP) — Eight Boy Scouts who got lost while camping in the North Carolina mountains turned up Monday as searchers scoured the heavily wooded area, officials said.

“They’re fine,” said Donna Johnston of the Boy Scouts’ Occoneechee Council in Raleigh. “They’re out of the woods.”

Johnston said the boys and their three leaders had gotten off a trail and decided to set up camp for another night. They waited until daylight rather than trying to walk out in the dark.

Rodney Jones, an assistant Scout master whose son was in the group, said they followed their training.

“I knew they would do as they were supposed to do and that is hunker down,” Jones said. “Everybody’s in good shape, a little tired. They said if they had cell service, they would have called us. They were, as the Scout motto says, they were prepared.”

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