AT 6:20 PM THURSDAY EVENING, FOUR DAYS AFTER he was killed in a silo explosion, the body of a volunteer firefighter from Worms, Rheinland, was successfully recovered.
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He was entombed near the top of the malted grain storage silo over 100 ft. above the ground and trapped under 2 tons of concrete panels that had collapsed from the top when an explosion occurred during a fire operation. See the Firegeezer story from Sunday HERE.
Due to the instability of the damaged silo and the precariousness of the debris, retrieval of the as-yet-unidentified firefighter was delayed until a specialist team was able to cut a 6 ft. by 10 ft. hole through one of the concrete panels while they were suspended from a crane platform/basket.
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After the panel was breached, a 5-man aerial rescue team from the Mannheim Fire Brigade was able to remove the firefighter and finally bring him down to the ground.
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Of the seven other FF’s that were injured in the blast, four of them remain in critical condition.
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