By Richard Smith
The Daily Mirror
MAESTEG, U.K. — A 700-pound woman trapped in her home for years has been rescued in a huge operation to get her to hospital.
Caroline Williams-Jones, 50, needed a 20-strong team of firefighters, paramedics and council workers to free her from the terraced house.
Nearby residents said the street was bedlam during the two-hour rescue, with part of the road being blocked off.
Mum-of-two Caroline is now at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital where doctors hope to operate on one of her legs.
Neighbour Andrea Taverner, 59, said yesterday: “She has had all sorts of health problems because of her weight. They had to get her out because she couldn’t move. I’ve not seen her leave the house in the eight years I’ve been here.”
Caroline’s house in Maesteg, South Wales, is just 25 miles from 19-year-old Georgia Davis’s home, where a similar rescue was mounted only three months ago. Fifty emergency workers demolished part of Georgia’s parents’ house in
Aberdare to get the 742-pound girl to hospital, where she is still receiving care.
Caroline had double doors and a driveway lift fitted to help her get out but grew too big to use them.
She was being looked after by son Leon, 30, and social services when her health deteriorated and her family raised the alarm.
Neighbour Philip Mordecai, 66, said: “She’d become very, very large and you could see them struggling to carry her through the door. It was absolute chaos in the street.”
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