Flash flooding forces evacuation of Boy Scout camp

EDEN, Vt.—More than 150 Boy Scouts and their leaders are spending the night in a school after flash flooding washed out a dirt road at their camp, forcing its evacuation.

About 109 campers from Vermont and Lake Placid, N.Y., and about 50 leaders were moved from the Mount Norris Scout Reservation and then taken by school bus to Eden Central School after two sections of Boy Scout Road were washed out Thursday afternoon.

Ray Doherty, Vermont Emergency Management's duty officer, says water from a tributary of the Lamoille River rose quickly and unexpectedly.

Kevin Gallagher, a spokesman for the group at the school, says everybody involved was prepared, and that for many, it was the most exciting thing they've done lately.