TWO scouts have been hailed as heroes after saving the life of another participant at the World Scout Jamboree in the USA.

Scouts Tom Forbes, 15, from Northwich and Sam Knight, 14, from Nantwich came to the aid of a scout who had crashed on one of the mountain bike trails at this year’s Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia.

The injured boy was bleeding heavily and losing consciousness.

The pair immediately put their first aid skills into practice, applied pressure to the wound and sought emergency help.

Oliver Chambers, a member of the Unit Leadership Team from Cheshire said: "Tom and Sam were mountain biking when they came across a Scout who had come off a bike and hit his head.

"The scout was bleeding heavily and drifting in and out of consciousness. Sam and Tom acted quickly, took control of the situation, found a towel in the scout’s bag and stemmed the bleeding, checked the casualty's responsiveness, sent someone for help and at the same time spotted the signs and treated a friend of the scout for shock.

"Everything they did was textbook. They worked together, remained calm and afterwards were extremely modest about the whole thing. The young Scout is now making a speedy recovery."

Cheshire Scouts’ deputy county commissioner Dave Hopley said: "We are so proud of Tom and Sam who administered some amazing first aid and saved the life of a fellow scout on the mountain hiking course while on activities at the World Scout

Jamboree.

"This is an incredibly humbling story of two super hero Scouts from Cheshire, whose quick thinking, textbook first aid skill and ability to keep calm under pressure saved lives. Tom and Sam - we are so proud of you!"

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More than 45,000 scouts from 152 different countries are taking part in the 12-day jamboree which is held every four years.

Tom and Sam are part of a unit of 181 scouts from Cheshire joining a group of 5,000 British scouts at the action-packed event.

Scouts believe in empowering young people with skills for life. To join Cheshire’s largest co-educational youth movement and learn skills like Tom and Sam visit cheshirescouts.org.uk/join #SkillsForLife.