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Buried Alive in a Grain Bin: How Eleven Minutes Saved Her Life
Buried Alive in a Grain Bin: How Eleven Minutes Saved Her Life
A predawn observer captured a thin curl of vapor rising from a steel pipe on a sealed grain bin for eleven minutes-breath-like puffs that led to one desperate question: was someone alive beneath the bin? That single detail, recorded at 6:47-6:58 a.m., would become the only visible sign connecting rescuers to a woman buried eleven feet deep-so how did eleven minutes of video and one narrow air column keep her alive?
In this episode, we tell what happened on March 14 when a routine inspection became a near-fatal grain entrapment…
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