Right now, two grain rescue tubes are sitting inside a trailer outside the Lennox Fire Station, but when the time comes, they could save someone’s life.

In 2019, in Minnesota, fire and rescue departments dealt with 12 grain bin entrapments, 11 of them ending in loss of life. One of those entrapments occurred on a farm near the small town of Gibbon.

Southwest Minnesota is probably best known for what the late author Bill Holm described as the "horizontal grandeur" of its gently rolling landscape, but a team of 20 volunteers is ready to perform ...

CHS and POET Bioprocessing Chancellor recently came together in support of first responders in Lincoln County. Both CHS and ...

Phil Larson excels in fire and rescue training plus grain bin rescues: • Hands-on and Team-Oriented: Grain bin rescue training is intensely hands-on and requires multiple instructors to effectively ...

Grinstead is a volunteer firefighter in Stanley. He joined roughly six months ago and wanted to learn more about grain bin ...

The rescue crew also cut holes in the sides of the grain bin to release more corn and help retrieve Arick. “During our page, they indicated to us he had been under the corn for over an hour ...

TAYLOR RIDGE, Ill. — A Taylor Ridge farm is once again having to deal with damaged grain bins following severe weather. An estimated 100,000 bushels of corn were being held in all the bins, with ...

ARTHUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Multiple Central Illinois fire crews got together in Arthur over the weekend for a grain bin rescue training. Arthur Fire and Ambulance hosted the quarterly training, with ...

The man, identified by the Falls County Sheriff’s Office as Wilbert Ratliff Jr., was rescued at around 3:30 p.m. and pulled out of the silo filled with corn.