South Metro Fire Rescue prepared for winter storm [Video]

LITTLETON, Colo. — On Friday, as communities across Colorado braced for snow, members of South Metro Fire Rescue teamed up with high schoolers from the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol. 

The group is a professional search and rescue team made up entirely of high school students, except for a few adults who oversee the program.

While they are primarily a search and rescue organization, they also support local fire departments and law enforcement agencies. On Friday, Lieutenant Mikinley Way said that meant helping to clear a path through the snow for other first responders. 

“What you don’t realize is a medic may go out and get stuck and we respond and we help or someone is in their house and they can’t get out,” Way said. 

It’s a task that may seem small, …