Ann Curry, a former co-anchor of NBC's "The Today Show," is thanking a troop of Boy Scouts that rescued her after she fell and broke her ankle during a hiking trip last month.

According to Scouting Magazine's blog Bryan on Scouting, a troop of New Jersey boy scouts spotted an injured Curry while she was hiking with her husband and son in New York's Harriman State Park, about 30 miles north of New York City, on April 5. Led by Scoutmaster Rick Jurgens, the Scouts immediately sprang into action when they happened to cross her path and realized that the journalist was hurt.

"They splinted it up perfectly," said Jurgens, who was leading Crew 368 from Berkeley Heights on a training hike.

Curry's family had carried her as far as they could down the mountain trail. Although she told the young scouts not to stop to help her, they reportedly ignored her pleas and looked for resources to handcraft a splint for her swelling leg.

"We were just doing what Boy Scouts do," said crew leader Chris Tribuna, 17, to the New York Daily News.

After the Scouts used sticks and a tarp to build a makeshift stretcher, eight of the boys carried her down the steep terrain to the base of the park, where her husband and son were waiting. She was then transported to a hospital.

In response, the NBC reporter wrote a letter of thanks to the troop.

"Your skill and professionalism were a great comfort to me. I feel enormously lucky that you came along at just the right moment, and were so willing to help a stranger in need," she wrote adding that her leg will take 10-12 weeks to heal.