Obese man too heavy to lift into ambulance

919AM GMT twenty-three March 2010

The rescuers - who estimated the studious weighed up to 60 mill - had to lapse the subsequent day with dilettante light rigging to transport the him out of his bed and in to an ambulance for sanatorium treatment.

Firemen were called to an residence in Croydon after the man called for help, observant he "couldn"t move".

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They outlayed some-more than 3 hours perplexing to send the studious onto a stretcher, but couldn"t nudge him from his bed due to his bulk.

The glow organisation left him with paramedics overnight and returned with state-of-the-art apparatus the subsequent day.

This time they managed to lift the him in to a super-strong nylon bracket prior to carrying him in to a dilettante ambulance written to lift exceedingly portly patients.

Fireman Dave Field pronounced "We did all we could, but we didnt unequivocally have the required apparatus to lift him since he was so large - we only could not get a squeeze on him.

"He contingency have weighed at slightest 60 mill and we only had to leave him there with the ambulance crew."

He pronounced that the man had left on "crash diet" for dual weeks in a unfortunate bid to lose weight, but had done himself ill in the process.

He combined "We went to the same residence a couple of weeks ago when he had depressed on the floor, and that time they managed to get him on to a clever nylon deliver bracket and manhandle him behind on to the bed.

That time he was in a improved state of health, but I dont think he"d eaten anything for the last dual weeks.

One neighbour, who did not wish to be identified, pronounced "He"s a big man and he is unfortunate to lose weight.

"We don"t see him really mostly as he is flattering most housebound, but I"m not astounded the firemen couldn"t lift him, he is gargantuan."

A London Ambulance Service mouthpiece reliable dual ambulances had been sent to the residence that dusk to reports of a chairman taken unwell.