FARMERSVILLE, Montgomery County — Fire and rescue crews pulled a man from a grain bin in Montgomery County Wednesday evening, according to Farmersville Fire Department Chief Jeff Erisman.
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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 report that he was stuck around 5 p.m.
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Erisman said the man got stuck at the bottom of the 30-foot-tall bin after the ladder detached.
When crews arrived on scene, they checked the air quality inside the bin and made sure the man was not injured.
The man was wearing a harness at the time of the incident, which is a requirement for people who get into confined spaces like grain bins.
Erisman said these rescues take quite a few people, so he called the Miami Valley Fire District to assist.
Crews used a firetruck ladder to get on top of the bin, then they attached rescue ropes to the man’s harness and pulled him out.
There was some grain product on the bottom, but it wasn’t full, according to Erisman.
“If you get into grain bins, when a person gets into that, it can be like quicksand. And a lot of times the first thing you do is panic, which will work against you. You’re fleeing trying to get out, and it just causes you to go deeper. So the best thing to do is stop, try to get some help coming,” Erisman said.
Although these kinds of calls don’t happen often, the Farmersville Fire Department stays on top of training and equipment.
Local farmers donated money to the fire department to get a grain rescue shoot.
“It comes in six panels, six different panels and we will go in and we’ll stick these panels together around the victim, once we have that in place, then we have an auger that we put down with a cordless rail, it augers all the corn or beans whatever be around the victim so that we can get them uncovered and then get them out,” Erisman said.
Erisman said the fire department trained with the state fire marshal’s office for these kinds of rescues last summer.
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