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Both the Kirksville and Adair County Fire Departments are equipped with a coffer dam, a tool used to rescue individuals buried under corn or soybeans in a grain bin.
Firefighters from Mt. Pleasant helped rescue a man from a corn bin early Wednesday morning. Mt. Pleasant Fire Chief Doug Lobsinger said the department was called for technical rescue services ...
The Newport Fire Department recently completed its training for grain bin rescues. This came after the county and the city purchased around $80,000 of equipment for the department.
Dennis Schneider was engulfed and trapped in his grain bin in 2015. Without the proper grain bin rescue equipment, local fire departments acted swiftly, utilizing a 5-gallon bucket to help save ...
Clinton firefighters and rescue technicians put their skills and new equipment to use to rescue a teen from a corn bin Monday. The victim was taken to a hospital as a precaution, according to KMBC ...
OVERTON — A fire in a grain bin three miles east of Overton destroyed an estimated 5,000 bushels of corn Sunday afternoon. At 2 p.m., the Overton Volunteer Fire Department was called to a fire ...
As reported on News Center 7 at 11:00, the incident occurred in the 300 block of W Center Street. The man got into the bin around 3 p.m., but his boss called the Farmersville Fire Department to ...
Stanton County Sheriff’s office says they received a 9-1-1 call at 7:03 P.M. about a farmer trapped in a corn bin about five miles northwest of Stanton, Neb.