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1 posted on 07/25/2005 9:17:04 PM PDT by nuconvert

...condolences to the families from a former scout leader in Norfolk, VA...

2 posted on 07/25/2005 9:40:36 PM PDT by gargoyle (...Let them talk, I'll loan them a soapbox, and a shovel to dig their own grave...)

GFIC(ground fault interrupted circuit) saves lives.

3 posted on 07/25/2005 10:14:12 PM PDT by pterional

To: Kathy in Alaska

4 posted on 07/25/2005 10:20:39 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (if it is not right do not do it,if it is not true do not say it.)

5 posted on 07/25/2005 10:26:08 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

What the heck does a Boy Scout campout need electricity for? Campfires, lanterns, latrines and tents should suffice!

6 posted on 07/25/2005 11:33:42 PM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")

How very sad. Here's more.

***........."It's a very tragic loss for all of us," Haines said.

The deaths came a day after a Boy Scouts volunteer from North Carolina was taken to a hospital where he died of an apparent heart attack.

Scout officials gave no details of how the accident occurred, other than to say that it happened while the camp was being set up. One person with knowledge of the jamboree operations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an investigation is under way, confirmed that a pole intended as a support for a tent touched an overhead power line.

A slender pole protruded through the apex of a pyramidal tent at the accident site and appeared to be touching the power line. The tent was one of two that appeared to be intended for large gatherings.

Bob Dries, volunteer chairman of the national news and media operation for the jamboree, said: "I would expect the jamboree is going to carry on. Certainly, our sympathy is with the families. It's a sad day. The jamboree is about kids and having fun."

The accident was being investigated by the Boy Scouts and the U.S. Army, which operates the base about 80 miles south of Washington, D.C.

Gregg Shields, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts, said chaplains and grief counselors were meeting with the scouts from Western Alaska. Those scouts are "our primary concern right now," Shields said.

Houston Chronicle reporter Kevin Moran contributed to this report from Virginia. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3281938

7 posted on 07/26/2005 12:16:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Picture of the tent and overhead wires via the "Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star"

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/072005/07252005/0725jaminjury/0725VAFRE102web.jpg/photo_view

Photo by Rebecca Sell, The Free Lance-Star

8 posted on 07/26/2005 2:53:37 AM PDT by leadpenny

12 posted on 07/26/2005 4:37:01 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])

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