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Buried Alive in a Silo: The Glove That Saved Him
Buried Alive in a Silo: The Glove That Saved Him
Cold, confined, and alone for fifty-three hours, a yellow rubber glove at the base of a fifty-three-foot steel silo became the only visible sign of a man buried under forty tons of wheat; how did a ratchet, a one-and-a-quarter-inch gap, and a border collie’s routine combine to keep him alive? What did he do in total darkness to engineer his own survival?
In this episode, we tell how the collapse at Aldenmoor Co-op silo Number Four left a maintenance worker sealed inside and what precise actions he took over two days to stay alive, from using…
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