Episode Details

Brenna Miller:
Rolling on the ground in pain 'cause like his burns are so bad.

Richard Clayton:
And that training kicking in, like in a fire instance, somebody being exposed to fire like that, that is the difference between life and death.

Anthony Godfrey:
I'm sure that you guys have heard the word hero associated with this.

Brenna Miller:
Yeah.

Anthony Godfrey:
How does that feel?

Brenna Miller:
From our perspective, like we just did what anyone would have done if they were there.

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Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They are former Bingham High School students who were in the right place at the right time and just happened to have the right skills to help.

On this episode of the Supercast, hear how one man is alive today, thanks in part to some teens who didn't hesitate to help a stranger in need, and find out why the teens give credit to the JATC South Fire Science Program for their success in saving a life.

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We're talking now with my friend, Brenna Miller, recent graduate of Bingham High School, current student at BYU, and someone who was recently involved in quite an amazing experience. Tell me a little bit about what happened in this life-saving event.

Brenna Miller:
Okay, so me and my friends is me, and then Brandon Lockhart, Zach Peterson, James Brown, and Nathan Gillett, and we all graduated from Bingham. We've all been good friends since middle school. We've all gone our ways. We went up Butterfield Canyon, Middle Canyon, same thing, and we were just going to do a little campfire, kind of hang out. We go up there a lot, so we went to do s'mores. We just hang out there a lot.

Anthony Godfrey:
It's somewhere you go frequently with friends.

Brenna Miller:
Yeah, and we'll just go have a little campfire, make s'mores, super fun. So we were up there. There was just a couple of us, not our whole friend group. There was five, and we were making a fire. We had been there for a couple hours, and it was packed. It was hard to find anywhere, any campsite up there, 'cause there's people everywhere. And everyone was riding ATVs and yelling. Just lots going on, very lively, more than normal.

And so we were just chilling, and then it kind of started to get dark, and more people kept driving by, and we were like, "Oh, this is so fun.” And then we kind of started hearing someone start yelling, but it was kind of quiet, sounded kind of far away. And most of us were like, "Okay." There's people yelling everywhere. We were out of campsite next to a bunch of other teenagers that had been yelling all night, and we were like, "Okay." But one of my friends--

Anthony Godfrey:
Had you camped overnight, and is this in the morning, or when is this happening?

Brenna Miller:
This is probably at 10 p.m., and we were gonna leave at midnight, go back home. But we heard yelling, and we all kind of brushed it off, except for one of my friends. He's very into survival and camping. He's very prepared, all that kind of stuff, and he was like, "We're going," and he's waiting.

Anthony Godfrey:
And who is this friend?

Brenna Miller:
This is James Brown.

Anthony Godfrey:
James Brown?

Brenna Miller:
Yeah. All these kid