6 October 2008
BSA Brothers Save Each Other, Family
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I’m not sure why this story touches me so deeply, but I literally have to breathe to keep from misting up. Maybe it’s the great picture by Jessica Stewart. Maybe it’s just that the Miller brothers kept their heads and saved everyone in their family. Or maybe it’s just the superb way that Alonzo Weston relates the story for Missouri’s St. Joseph News-Press.
It was the day after Thanksgiving last year. The Miller house was full of people and everyone was still full of Thanksgiving dinner.
Jeannie Miller and her two sons, Aaron and John, had just settled down to watch movies for the evening. Grandma, an aunt and her kids were getting ready for bed.
Then somebody smelled smoke.
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The downstairs doorway was the only way out of the duplex. But fire and smoke blocked the way.
Aaron and John knew what to do. The two boys had just finished a fire safety course in their Boy Scout troop. They broke out an upstairs window and got a ladder to get everyone down to safety.
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“It’s not just my life they saved,” Ms. Miller added. “They saved their grandmother, my older sister … There were seven children in the house counting them.”
The family lost everything in the fire. Not only did they lose furniture and every piece of clothing that wasn’t on their backs, but five iguanas, two rabbits, two dogs and three cats.
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Now the boy’s stepfather, John Merriott, has become a scoutmaster. The grandmother and aunt whom the boys saved from the fire also have decided to become Cub Scout den leaders.
“I grew up being a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout, and after they told me the story, I decided to become their scout leader and go ahead and give back what I got out of it,” Mr. Merriott said.
Fantastic job by these two young heroes. Hoo boy. Gotta go get something out of my eye.
Photo by Jessica Stewart
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