grainextraction1Jamestown (CSi )  Stemming  from the successful rescue at the Kensal grain elevator, on January 15th, regional fire and rescue departments will train in grain bin extrication.

The Kensal  Fire Department will host a training session with Dale Eckhardt, a grain bin extrication training specialist, on Wednesday, next week.  Fire and rescue departments from McHenry, Glenfield, Wimbledon, Courtenay and Pingree next week, will participate along with Carrington.

No one at the Kensal elevator was trained in grain extrication, as there hadn’t been an incident like this.

The   Kensal Farmers Elevator Co. is  now working with the fire department to purchase a set of grain extrication tube sections.

Kensal Farmers Elevator Co. general manager Cris Breidenbach says a set of grain extrication tubes costs about $2,200.

Breidenbach says the company is splitting the cost with the Kensal Fire Department for grain extrication equipment and training.

About 12:30 p.m. the Kensal Fire Department was called to the scene as the elevator is in its response area, along with the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office and the Carrington Volunteer Fire and Rescue.

Dave Jones  was trapped up to his chest in beans in the  grain bin.

Jones was taken by Carrington Ambulance . Jones was transported to Carrington Health Center and released a short time later.

Th rescue involves the  use of two sets of grain bin extrication tubes.

Breidenbach says Jones was wearing all the proper safety equipment when he went into the bin on January  15th.

Other grain elevators in the region do have grain bin extrication equipment and training, and the Jamestown Rural Fire Department has grain extrication rescue equipment including a set of the tubes and members who are extrication certified.

Jamestown City Fire Department, Training Officer, Lt. Sheldon Mohr, says the department doesn’t have a grain extrication tube, and the firefighters haven’t been trained in grain extrication procedures.