Thanks everyone! Well, I still am on a bit of reduced capacity as I can only type for a short while before my wrists and hands start to cramp up. I pulled something in all of the adrenaline fueled work that I was doing in the first 4-6 hours into the incident. I also had minor steam burns on the side of my face/neck and on one of my hands. Mostly irritation and swelling, but no real blistering to speak of.

My crew was working a few feet away from the side of the bin 20 some feet in the air on the platform where the 4 foot diameter burner fan was. When we first got up there, the side of the bin was 450*F. Not too long after we were working up there, cutting inspection holes with a K12 saw and trying anything we could to put water on the fire, the side of the bin showed 750*F on the infrared camera.[sm=yikesomg.gif] We should not have been up there, but it was the only way to stay ahead of the fire somehow until we could get the corn out.

 

Welcome back Kyle. Glad to hear you are ok.

 

Glad to have you back and doing OK.