The Telegraph
CROYDON, England — The rescuers — who estimated the patient weighed up to 60 stone — had to return the next day with specialist lifting gear to haul the him out of his bed and into an ambulance for hospital treatment.
Firemen were called to an address in Croydon after the man called for help, saying he ‘couldn’t move’. They spent more than three hours trying to transfer the patient onto a stretcher, but couldn’t budge him from his bed due to his bulk. The fire crew left him with paramedics overnight and returned with state-of-the-art equipment the next day.
This time they managed to lift the him into a super-strong nylon stretcher before carrying him into a specialist ambulance designed to carry severely obese patients.
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