Girl Scouts Brownie Troop 43244 sold 11,000 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies and donated a portion of their profits to purchase enough pet oxygen masks for each of Everett Fire Department’s six stations.
The troop has always been focused on animals, according to their troop leader Tina Fish, who raises puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind and often brings them to the meetings. In past years, the girls have focused on animal-related service projects, including purchasing a harness for a guide dog team, making feral cat houses, and throwing a birthday for puppies in a puppy-raising club.
The motivation for this year’s project came as the troop worked to gather items for a family that recently lost their house, and their two dogs, to a fire. The girls wondered if having access to pet oxygen masks could have saved the dogs.
Fish remembered seeing an Everett Herald photo of Jonathan Schill, an Everett Fire medical services officer, resuscitating a dog with a human oxygen mask. The girls set out to raise enough funds to supply each of the six Everett fire stations with a pet oxygen mask.
The girls had a giddy incentive: covering their troop leader with goop. One girl sold 2,300 boxes of cookies and poured a gallon and a half over Fish, who took it with smiles in a kiddie pool set up outside at Legion Memorial Park.
Fish has encouraged her girls like this before. Columnist Julie Muhlstein featured her in a 2016 story when the then-Daisies threw whipped cream “pies” at her.
This time around, firefighters were there to help hose the troop leader off — and say thanks.
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