Firefighters & Rescue Personnel Working to Rescue 2 from Grain Bin near Bridgeville
April 10, 2026/
Firefighters and rescue personnel from throughout the region are working to free two subjects who are trapped in a grain bin on Redden Road east of Bridgeville. The call came in just before 5pm and multiple calls for vacuum trucks and other personnel have gone out.聽
According to the Delmarva Firefighter Forum on Facebook:
Update: The first vacuum truck has arrived from the County, but is the wrong type of vacuum truck and operations are delayed. Two helicopters are on scene waiting the patients to be removed from the grain bin. Crews have made access to the second patient’s head. Command has placed a special call for Canteen 400 from Ridgely Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. in Maryland due to the probability of an extended operation. Ladder trucks from Greenwood, Seaford, Ellendale, Harrington Fire Company, Inc., Milford, and Selbyville are on scene to lower equipment into the grain bin to Tech Rescue team members from across Sussex and Kent County.
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Update 2: Command is requesting confined space rescue crews from Salisbury Fire Department and Ocean City Fire Department.