Youth in the News
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 A young seven-year-old boy was playing with matches in a church supply closet while his brother was attending a Scout meeting. An adult walked into the room and saw what was happening, prompting the boy to jump out a window, scale a chain-link fence and run off. People who saw the boy assumed he had run home. Clayton Abrams, a Scout who was in the church, looked out the window and saw smoke coming from the dumpster at the back of the building. He yelled that it was on fire and then ran outside. When he and some other boys got closer to the dumpster, they could hear someone screaming for help. Clayton, who ironically had just been working on the first-aid portion of his merit badge, said the adrenaline kicked in and he ran to the dumpster without hesitating. Flames shot out of the top and he opened one of the lids to reach inside for the boy. “I reach in and something grabs my hand,” he said. “He was red. He was screaming. It was really burning hot.” Clayton was not injured. The young boy suffered a first-degree burn on his arm but was otherwise unharmed. Clayton was a true hero for saving the seven-year-old. The American Red Cross, Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter awarded Clayton with a special Hero award.
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