Grain Bin Rescue trainer Craig Berg joined Arlington Fire and Rescue personnel inside a grain wagon at the Dunklau Dairy Farm Monday evening to practice grain elevator rescue.  The assembled rescue tube allows responders to extricate grain elevator victims who have been caught in a grain collapse and unable to get out without assistance.

The tubes were purchased through a grant from Farm Services of America.   All three Fire and Rescue departments in Washington County are now equipped with the life saving rescue tube kits.  Farm Services of America donates 100 sets of rescue tubes in a 5 state area each year.

Arlington volunteer fire and rescue trains in grain bin rescue in a grain wagon on the Dunklau Dairy Farm.

John DiGiorgio as rescue victim hands a bucket of corn to rescuers from inside tube.

Trainer Craig Berg and John DiGiorgio assemble rescue tube in grain wagon on Dunklau Dairy Farm.

View of Arlington from the top of a grain wagon at Dunklau Dairy Farm at sunset.