Calif. Firefighters Rescue Man From Wheat Grain Silo
Source KTXL-TV, Sacramento, Calif.
March 20--DUNNIGAN -- A man is in stable condition after spending several hours stuck up to his chest in a wheat grain silo.
Yolo County officials were called just after 9 a.m. Tuesday to help pull the man out. There were three employees inside one of the silos at Adams Grain in Dunnigan when one of them became stuck. Officials believe he walked into an air pocket of grain that had not settled yet, and it fell in around him.
Dunnigan is about 20 miles north of Woodland.
Firefighters had to suction a lot of the wheat out of the silo before they could rescue the man. The process took several hours. The man reportedly went numb in his legs from the weight of all the grain around him.
"It's slow going, the more grain we can pump out, the better," said Fire Chief Jeff Gilbert with the City of Williams Fire Protection Authority.
Firefighters gave the 26-year-old man oxygen and put harnesses on him to keep him up as the grain was sucked out. When they finally got enough grain out, they lowered a backboard into the silo and brought him out.
He was flown to UC Davis Medical Center for treatment, possibly for crush injuries.
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Crews suction grain out of a silo so they can rescue a man who became stuck inside Tuesday morning. Click on the photo for more pictures.
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