re: Rescue underway to save 2 men trapped inside Arkansas grain bin.

I did not read the report, but from the photographs can tell you that those guys are amateurs and idiots. All of them.

First, you never, ever, ever walk across stored grain. It can form a crust that can break from under your weight. If that happens you will fall into the grain below and the sides of the stored grain will collapse and bury you.

Second, why did the rescuers only cut a small opening at the bottom of the bin? They should have cut several at varying heights.

I know this because when I was 16 years-old my father pulled me out of a high school basketball game and took me to help "rescue" a man who had done exactly what I just described and he knew a lot better than to do so.

We dug him out with shovels, but he was unsurprisingly already dead.