By Dawn De Busk
Staff Writer
NAPLES — Butch Auger had a gut feeling to go to Sebago Lake State Park on an extremely hot afternoon in July. That decision put him less than one minute away from the sandbar where a young man had a spinal injury.
Auger is a Naples Marine Safety deputy harbor master.
However, he was off duty when he responded to the 9-1-1 call on July 23. Immediately, Auger talked somebody with a boat into taking him out to the scene, gathered information from two off-duty nurses helping out, established communications with dispatch, and sat calmly with the injured individual while waiting for a rescue boat to arrive.
Eventually,…
