![]() ![]() “Most people will get trapped once they sink above their knees, but most will get out once it is below their knees,” said Daniel Neenan, the trainer and director of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety. Metal stairs inside the rescue tube allows the victim to climb out of the bin, while rescuers stand outside the tube, standing on something akin to plastic holders for multiple bottles of soda pop to keep from sinking. “It’s simple, but it’s ingenious,” Bacha said about the rescue bin and auger to remove the grain. It spits out the grain from inside the tube at 2½ bushels a minute to allow the victims to extricate themselves while keeping rescuers safe. ![]() In a simulated grain bin set up outside the fire hall, firefighters learned how to erect the 6-foot-tall metal panels that interlock to form the rescue bin and how to use the auger. If a grain bin entrapment does occur, Rosatti said, the two departments could jointly respond to the emergency. Rosatti said he will reach out to Bacha in an effort to conduct joint training on using the rescue bins to free a person trapped in a grain bin. The New Centerville Fire Department in Somerset County also has one.īob Rosatti, Forbes Road fire chief, said his department has never had to use the grain rescue bin since it acquired it about five years ago through assistance from the local farming community. Pleasant Unity and Forbes Road are the only fire departments in the county that now have a grain bin rescue tube, Bacha said. “It’s another tool in our toolbox to safely extricate someone in that situation,” Bacha said. There are a number of farms in the area where the rescue tube could be used. John Bacha, Pleasant Unity fire chief, said he wanted to obtain a grain bin rescue tube because “there are a lot of specialty situations we run into, and rescuing a person trapped in a grain bin is one them.” Pleasant Unity was one of just seven fire departments in Pennsylvania to receive a bin rescue tube in a recent round of distributions to 58 fire departments nationwide. The Pleasant Unity Fire Department received a metal rescue tube and an auger that removes the grain from inside through the support of Panichelle Insurance of Unity, the county farm bureau and Nationwide Insurance, in partnership with the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety in Poesta, Iowa. In as little as 20 seconds, an adult can be buried in the grain and has a slim chance of survival, according to an agriculture safety organization.Ībout 65 firefighters from 11 fire departments, including those in Unity, East Huntingdon, Fairfield, Hempfield, Ligonier and Penn townships, underwent training at the Pleasant Unity Fire Hall this week on how to free a person trapped in a bin so they and the farmer can get out safely. 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 sentence.
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