Last year, the Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute (KFRTI) teamed up with private industry to develop and deliver some simple yet highly specialized rescue training; they then began offering one ...

Phil Larson, in yellow, training officer for the Axtell VFD and South Central Rope Rescue, and Minden firefighter Corey Vahl lower to the ground a dummy removed from inside the Mid-Plans Community ...

Grain bins on rural farms filled with a year's harvest can be dangerous and when workers become trapped in the grain, it often ends in death. That's why in Iowa, volunteer fire departments are using ...

VINTON - Justin See grew up on a farm, so he is no stranger to grain bins. But last Thursday night, See got to see a grain bin from an entirely new perspective - trapped in the center of one up to his ...

Firefighters from across two counties assembled Tuesday at a grain bin northeast of Franklin. The reason? To practice what to do when the call comes in from a local farmer or their family: someone has ...

Grain engulfment causes four to five deaths every year in the United States. On Friday, there was a training for both employees and emergency crews on how to rescue people trapped in grain. It was ...

If a farmer falls into a bin with flowing shelled corn, wheat, oats, sunflower seeds or barley, they might sink to their knees and be unable to free themselves in the time it took to read this ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Young people on family-operated grain farms and beginning workers in the commercial grain industry can learn how to stay safe in their work by attending daylong training offered ...

Firefighters from Kewanee are taking part in some potentially life-saving training, learning how to best respond to grain bin accidents. The training includes hands-on and in-classroom sessions to ...

Municipal District of Taber – On June 9 and 10, 2018 – over 50 M.D. of Taber Regional Fire Service Volunteer Firefighters representing all 6 of its Fire Stations will be undertaking Grain Entrapment ...

Firefighters use rescue equipment to retrieve a trapped person from a simulator during training Saturday at the Barlow Volunteer Fire Department. (Photo Provided) BARLOW — Area firefighters were ...

Valuable training, that’s what firefighters in McPherson are calling an experience they had this week thanks to Nationwide Insurance. It’s part of a program that provides fire departments rescue ...