grain bin entrapment News

Members of several volunteer fire departments in southeast Iowa learned how to use new equipment that could help them rescue someone trapped in a grain bin. Firefighters from Mediapolis, Danville and Yarmouth gathered Monday for training on the equipment, which …

The odds of living were against Roger Bates when he fell into a grain bin on Jan. 31. The 78-year-old Rockton resident sank neck-deep into 35,000 bushels of corn while trying to break up spoiled clumps of material that would …