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Basking Ridge Cub Scouts View Rescue and Towing Re-enactment
The Bernardsville Fire Co. #1, together with police, emergency medical technicians and the Somerset Hills Towing Co. re-enacted the procedures to safely remove a victim from the scene of an accident.
First-grade Cub Scouts from Pack 451 in Basking Ridge, along with some siblings and friends, put on their hard hats and watched with open mouths as police, firefighters, rescue workers and big trucks from the Somerset Hills Towing Co. showed them how all would cooperate to rescue trapped victims at an accident scene. With smashed cars being cut open and (fake) victims being pulled out — and a car then lifted in the air by the towing company's giant rescue crane — last Sunday's demonstrtion turned into a Cub Scout trip to remember. Frank Sanchez of Basking Ridge, one of the managers for Somerset Hills Towing Co's facility off Old Quarry Road in Bernardsville, said the demonstration showed how all the different volunteers and professionals …
