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By Curtis Galbraith

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Firefighter training on grain entrapment to include free public movie screening

Aug 6, 2020 | 5:30 AM

Training on how to rescue someone trapped in grain is set for close to 30 firefighters in DeBolt this weekend.

MD of Greenview Fire Chief Wayne Brown says a deputy fire chief who had been stationed in Penhold, Alberta saw it there and thought it would be a good idea to have it here.

“We had an event in 2015 in the DeBolt area. More recently, last year, there was a frack sand, which is similar in some ways to grain in the way it’s stored, there was an incident last year in the Fox Creek area. With the traumatic effect it has on the community, the loss of life in that way, we thought we would give our firefighters the equipment and the training so that in the future, if there was something like that to happen, at least we’d have the opportunity to affect a rescue.”

The firefighters will take part in classroom and hands-on work before a live training simulation Sunday. It goes from 10 a.m. to 4 P.M. at the DeBolt Public Service Building and the public is invited to come watch.

Brown adds a movie called Silo, based on a true story where a community rallies to rescue someone trapped in grain, will be shown and be open to the public.

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“It is set in a small town in the US and it really takes you through an entrapment like that. This will be the Canadian premiere.”

Drive-in screenings will take place at 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Cranberry Lake Rodeo. Free tickets are available on Event Brite or through the MD of Greenview’s Facebook page.