First responders train for grain engulfment rescues
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GIRARD, Kan. — Some local first responders participated in a unique training exercise, today. It's grain engulfment rescue training - offered by the University of Kansas Fire and Training Institute - at the Girard Fire Department. It simulates a situation of rescuing a person entrapped in a grain bin. Several individuals volunteered to be trapped []

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