Appleton Troop News Today

On this episode, Janice sits down with the Boy Scouts and Scout Leaders who sprang into action and saved lives after the Amtrak train they were on derailed in Missouri.

Eli Skrypczak played on his phone Monday afternoon while aboard an Amtrak train hurtling through the heartland of Missouri. As he slipped in and out of sleep, the 15-year-old Boy Scout and hundreds of other passengers were unaware of the dump truck ahead that was about to change their lives forever.

Eli Skrypczak played on his phone Monday afternoon while aboard an Amtrak train hurtling through the heartland of Missouri. As he slipped in and out of sleep, the 15-year-old Boy Scout and hundreds of other passengers were unaware of the dump truck ahead that was about to change their lives forever.

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The Scouts from troops 12 and 73 in Appleton, Wisconsin, offered first aid, help getting out and comfort until rescue crews arrived. The accident took place at an uncontrolled crossing near Mendon, Missouri, when the train hit a dump truck. That driver and two train passengers died. The teens provided first aid, comfort and help getting off the Amtrak train which derailed,

Mike Spencer, 64, had long warned Amtrak and the Missouri Department of Transportation to make improvements to the crossings in Mendon before Mondays deadly crash.