Teen Earns Eagle Scout Recognition for Fire Safety Project

Working with the Moorestown Fire Department over the last year and a half, Evan Gill helped distribute (and install) smoke detectors and other safety equipment to residents.

For Evan Gill, it wasn’t enough to finish his Eagle Scout project, get his badge and move on. He wanted to make sure he was helping people, and he wanted to put something in place that would endure after he’d done his part. Toward the end of 2010, Evan, then a 13-year-old at William Allen Middle School, hatched an idea: team up with the Moorestown Fire Department—and specifically family friend/neighbor/assistant fire marshal Ken Schweiker—to distribute and install smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors, while educating the recipients on fire safety. On the surface, the program was a means for Evan, now 15 and entering his sophomore year at Moorestown High School, to earn the highly coveted Eagle Scout ranking, …

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