Every year thousands of farmers and commercial grain handlers risk their lives by entering grain bins to remove clumped or rotted grain. As rural communities have come to know all too well, an accident in a grain bin can quickly turn deadly. In just seconds, adults can sink to their waist in flowing grain, rendering them completely trapped without the proper rescue devices. These accidents result in dozens of lost lives each year and deaths increased in 2019 and early 2020 due to the wet harvest. Rescue workers are frustrated by this because too often when they get a call to rescue someone in a grain bin it becomes instead a body recovery and not a rescue. About twelve volunteer fire-rescue personnel came to Iron Ridge last week to formally accept the gift and learn how to use the new equipment and get some hands-on practice in grain rescue. Joining them were members of the neighboring Neosho Fire and Rescue.