With his hands red from the cold, Zach Sizemore reached for another case of water and headed up the driveway of a stranger.
For the past several days, Sizemore and other Boy Scouts from Marion, Kentucky's Troop 30 have gone door to door bringing supplies to those in need.
"It's usually just drop the food off, count how many they need for a couple days and be on our way," he explained.
That was not the case Wednesday when the Scouts brought water to Ann Hodge and her husband, George.
"She was a little sluggish, she didn't quite know what was going on. She wasn't all there," Sizemore remembered.
Turns out The Hodges were using a generator to heat their home, keeping it just outside a back door.
No windows were cracked, so by the time The Boy Scouts arrived the couple was slowly being poisoned by carbon monoxide.
"It was hurting to breath, I had a headache, I just felt sick," Ann Hodge said Thursday, during an interview from her home where she spent the day recovering.
The Scouts called for help, moved the generator a safe distance from the home, and cracked a window.
"I didn't realize it till it was almost too late, these young men saved my life," Hodge said.
And that's one more reason to keep doing checks, one more reason for Sizemore to stay in scouting.
"It makes me proud that I'm a Boy Scout," he said.
Troop 30 is working with the National Guard to do those checks.
As of Thursday they had visited close to 50 homes.
They say they will continue the door to door checks as long as they are needed.
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