GRIDLEY, Ill. (WCIA) — Personnel from the Urbana Fire Department were among those who responded to a grain bin rescue in Livingston County on Thursday.

The rescue happened in rural Gridley over the course of eight hours. The Gridley Fire Department posted to its Facebook page that it received reports just after noon that a victim was buried up to his shoulders in corn. The alarm was upgraded twice over the next few hours to request aid from several other cities, including Urbana.

It took nine sets of grain rescue tubes in order to stabilize the corn, officials said, with limited access to the victim due to his positioning. The victim was finally extracted from the corn just before 8 p.m. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Photos courtesy of the Gridley Fire Department.

The Urbana Fire Department was joined at the scene by the fire departments and protection districts of Gridley, Normal, Pontiac, Streator, LaSalle, Chenoa and Flanagan, along with the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department, several co-op organizations, a local cafe and pie shop and farmers living around the scene.