When Schock started as a volunteer firefighter in 2004, "it was more about the brotherhood and camaraderie, getting away from work and hanging out with buddies, putting out fires and doing cool things,” he said. Lee was alone when he fell, and when crews from Walcott, Colfax, Davenport, Kindred and Casselton, N.D., fire departments as well as Kindred Ambulance, F-M Ambulance and the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, arrived, their combined manpower couldn’t save Lee. Nobody knows what the 43-year-old’s final moments were like, but to lifelong farmers, grain bins are as common as tractors, and too often taken for granted, said Rich Schock, a volunteer firefighter and close friend of Lee’s. It was just another day on the farm in 2008 when Lyndon "Lynn" Wayne Lee slipped into a grain bin and was buried alive by dried corn.
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