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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Related Advancement
Skill Awards: □ First Aid □ Hiking
□ Camping q Cooking
Merit Badges: □ Emergency Pre-
paredness □ First Aid □ Life-
saving □ Signaling □ Fireman-
ship □ Safety □ Hiking □ Camp-
ing □ Cooking
Progress Awards: All
Scout Literature Resources
Scout Handbook
Scoutmaster's Handbook
Fieldbook
Merit badge pamphlets for those sub-
jects listed above
Scout Songbook
Patrol and Troop Leadership
Leadership Corps
First Aid Contests, No. 3703
Knots and How to Tie Them, No. 3170
Other Resources
Emergency Preparedness merit
badge counselors, rescue squad
members
TROOP LEADERS' COUNCIL
(See agenda on page 119, Patrol and
Troop Leadership.)
Meet about a week before activi-
ties begin on this program feature.
Cover these items:
• Select date, route and site for
survival trek.
• Arrange with troop committee for
transportation to starting point, if
necessary.
• Outline program for survival trek
activities.
• Discuss mobilization plan for troop.
• Review basic first aid and rescue
knots.
• Conduct progress review for Ten-
derfoot through First Class.
PLANNING YOUR SURVIVAL
TREK
Make this highlight, whether it is
a one-day or weekend event, a short
course in personal survival and deal-
ing with emergencies. It should be
as rugged as your Scouts' experience
permits.
Begin with a troop mobilization at
an unannounced hour on Saturday
morning (see Emergency Prepared-
ness merit badge pamphlet for mo-
bilization planning).
Here are a few suggestions for
activities on your trek:
• Demonstrate and practice making
emergency shelters in the wild, fire-
building without matches, and finding
water and food (pages 308-321, Field-
book).
• Learn how to find and prepare edi-
ble plants (pages 322-331, Field-
book).
• Conduct a lost-child search (this
page).
• Learn water purification methods
(page 42, Emergency Preparedness
merit badge pamphlet).
• Practice first aid for common in-
juries to persons lost or hurt in the
wilderness—shock, bruises, abra-
sions, fractures, heat exhaustion,
frostbite, exposure.
LOST-CHILD SEARCH
Scout troops are sometimes called
upon to aid in a search for a lost
person, particularly in wilderness
territory. A practice session simu-
lating the real thing will prepare your
troop if it is ever needed.
The "lost child" is a dummy made
of a straw or rag-filled burlap bag.
Put a shirt or other recognizable ar-
ticle of clothing over the lost child
so that Scouts will be sure they have
the real thing.
Place the dummy (or dummies) in
the field in advance. They should be
hidden in an area that will prove dif-
ficult and interesting to the search-
ers.
Patrols make up the search par-
ties. The search area should be
marked on maps which are distribu-
ted to each patrol. Recall signals
should be agreed upon so that the
search does not continue after the
lost child has been found.
The search will be even more dra-
matic if arrangements can be made
with a military unit or police depart-
ment to have some walkie-talkies on
hand for coordinating search activity.
If the search area is a rough wil-
derness, provide clues (but not too
many) leading to the lost child.
These might be occasional footprints
or bits of torn clothing.
DISASTER REPORTING
CONTEST
During an emergency a Scout may
be asked to report on the location
and extent of a disaster and the con-
dition of persons and property. They
might have to make sketch maps to
guide rescuers. This contest is train-
ing in map symbols and sketching.
Equipment—Paper and pencil for
each Scout and piece of light card-
board per patrol, (continued on page 51)
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