TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (WAND) - A grant from the Taylorville Memorial Foundation equipped local firefighters with grain bin rescue kits. The Taylorville Fire Department received a grant from Taylorville ...

Illinois departments received up to $4K each for rescue gear and tech upgrades through Compeer Financial’s grant program.

Through a series of Beck’s Day Ever videos, Beck’s Hybrids is raising awareness about grain bin entrapments by sharing stories of survival and hope. In 2019, in Minnesota, fire and rescue departments ...

Grain bins dot the countryside across the U.S., but did you know that over the past 50 years, there have been 900 cases of grain bin engulfments? That’s why Nationwide and supporting partners hold ...

Dale and Cindy Ekdahl got into the grain bin safety business more than a decade ago. It started, Dale recalls, after a 13-year-old boy died not far from their farm in western Minnesota. The boy had ...

CUBA, Ill. (WMBD) — A Fulton County volunteer rescue team is planning to purchase special equipment after crews rescued a man from a grain bin. Cass-Putman Rescue is planning a fundraiser to purchase ...

ERDAHL, Minn. — Dale and Cindy Ekdahl got into the grain bin safety business more than a decade ago. It started, Dale recalls, after a 13-year-old boy died not far from their farm in western Minnesota ...

Courtesy photo Workers train to use grain entrapment rescue equipment. WILLIAMSBURG — The Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department will be one of 58 departments across the country to receive grain ...

Agtegra Cooperative provides grain rescue training for workers in its many locations, as well as a close-up rescue drill exposure for medical students at the University of South Dakota. Agtegra and ...

A man became trapped in a large grain bin, requiring a "very dangerous" rescue mission that put even the lives of the response team in jeopardy.

Emergency teams mounted a careful extraction operation using rope systems and ladder trucks to free a man trapped in a bin ...

The child found conscious and breathing, was transported to a local hospital, authorities said Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work ...