The Edgar Fire and Rescue Squad will be upgrading their equipment with a $30,000 donation received recently from Aurora Cooperative.

In December of 2019, the fire department was called several times to assist with a fire at the company’s elevator located in the northeastern Nuckolls County community of Sedan.

The volunteer fire fighters were first called to the shuttle train loading elevator complex on Dec. 22, when it was discovered a bin full of corn was on fire. The department was called back to the elevator nine more times as the fire stretched over several days and included calls o...