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The Ainsworth Opera House will host an event to educate individuals on grain bin entrapments through a film screening and discussion. There will be a free screening of the movie SILO, a film about an 18-year-old boy who becomes entangled in a grain bin entrapment incident. After the film is over, a discussion will take place featuring Ainsworth Fire Chief Waylon Schultz, Farmers Coop Association manager Brian Wood, and local farmer and volunteer firefighter Michael Cavin. Schultz tells KCII News how the system for grain bin rescues has evolved, “It’s really labor intensive, it takes a lot of people to do. Just getting stuff up into the grain bin. There’s a lot of older and newer grain bins around so you’re always asking what kinds of ladders are there to get into them, how big is the hole to get the stuff into it. Actually in Washington County, all the fire chiefs work together and now we have a box alarm system that we used for our structure fires and we’ve also put those into effect for grain bin rescues. We have ladder trucks coming from Riverside and Washington to any grain bin rescue or grain bin call, which will make an extra fire department come just because it takes so many people to do.” The film will begin at 7 p.m. with the discussion to follow immediately after. No registration is required to watch the film or participate in the discussion.