GREAT VILLAGE, N.S. – Firefighters rescued a 20-year-old worker who had fallen into a grain elevator and nearly been buried alive in corn on a Colchester County farm on Feb. 23. The man was in the process of clearing a clogged augur in the feed silo at Balamore Farm Ltd. when he became trapped. He retrieved his cell phone and called a co-worker, who turned off the augur and then contacted emergency assistance, according to a press release from the Colchester County RCMP. Emergency personnel from the Great Village and District Fire Brigade arrived at the scene shortly after noon; with help from two other local fire departments and the Special Hazards Response Unit, the Brigade helped the worker out of the silo through the top at about 2:30 p.m. The man was sent to the Colchester East Hants Health Centre with non-life-threatening injuries, and the provincial Department of Labour and Advanced Education placed a stop-work order on Balamore employees entering silos and hoppers.