A team of local firefighters is coached through a simulated rescue during the Jan. 27 training and are pictured from left, Shaun Beck of Holyoke VFD, John Sagehorn of Amherst VFD and Lance Murray of HVFD. Sagehorn is pictured inside a metal rescue tube, which was fitted around him to allow Murray to remove the synthetic grain trapping Sagehorn’s legs. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Lead instructor Tim Zehnder, and Gabe Hubbard and Phil Wirges of HVFD are pictured from left lowering a dummy, representing a victim of a grain bin accident, to the ground with ropes and a litter at the second station of Sunday’s rescue training. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Firefighters get gritty in grain bin training
Rescue agencies from across northeast Colorado gathered in Holyoke last weekend, Jan.
