The rescue of a woman from a rural Mower County silo at the end of May is acting as another opportunity to preach safety on the farm.

According to Austin Fire Department Commander Troy Tigner, AFD was dispatched to the scene at around 8:16 a.m. on Saturday, May 31, for a woman trapped in corn. Firefighters discovered the woman in a silo, up to mid-thigh in corn still on the ear.

After 45 minutes, firefighters were able to free the woman using the department’s ladder truck to work down from the top of the silo.

“The biggest problem when we got there was that she was kind of in a little bit of a hole where the corn was and a big wall of corn that could come down,” Tigner said. “We didn’t want to make things worse.”

While there was a happy ending, it nevertheless is an example of just how

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