Scout To Receive High Honor For Heroic Action

A Wall Township Boy Scout who is credited with saving his friend’s life during a house fire last year is scheduled to receive one of scouting’s highest honors Wednesday.

Patrick Daley, a member of Troop 82, is scheduled to receive the Boy Scouts of America Honor Medal for Lifesaving and Meritorious Action during a Court of Honor ceremony to be held during the Wall Township Committee meeting on Wednesday.

The Honor Medal is awarded to scouts who show a “unusual heroism and skill’’ by saving someone’s life while at “considerable risk’’ to himself. The medal was first awarded in 1923. Since then, there have been only 2,354 awarded, and only 52 last year, according to the Boy Scouts of America.

Daley, on April 18, 2012, saved his friend’s life during a house fire that gutted a West Belmar home.

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For a full account of the fire and of Daly’s actions that day, please see:

Anatomy Of A Tragedy: Central Avenue Fire

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Brock Glab, a Wall High School student, was stuck in a room of his house, his hands badly burned as flames burned closer to him. Daly, responded to his friends’ screams, opened the door as fire consumed the room.

The two made it outside alive. The house was destroyed.

The presentation of the Honor Medal will be made by Kurt Kalafsky, President of Monmouth Council, and Bray Barnes, a past president of Monmouth Council, and current member of the Boy Scouts of America National Court of Honor Committee, according to a Boy Scouts release.

The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at town hall, 2700 Allaire Rd.