VIDEO: Hundreds of farmers and ranchers came to the Fargodome on Tuesday, Feb. 4, for the 2020 Northern Corn and Soybean Expo, with many taking in a sobering safety lesson.
Since last fall, 21 people across the Midwest have died in grain bin accidents.
On Tuesday, the Sheyenne Valley Technical Rescue Team showed expo attendees how the team can rescue and save farmers who become trapped in grain bins.
"We wanted to bring to everybody out here today just the awareness of how fast these incidents can occur," Rich Schock with the rescue team told the visitors.
Firefighters from Kindred, Horace and Leonard trained to create the rescue team which specializes in grain bin and confined space rescues.
"Once you've crossed the threshold of entering the (grain) bin, you've obviously entered into a confined space and then it just goes bad from there," Schock said.