Five-hour rescue ordeal of injured 26-stone woman

Aug 20 2007 by Alan Weston, Liverpool Daily Post

A FIVE-HOUR rescue operation was mounted to lift an injured 26-stone woman from her Merseyside home.

The woman broke a number of bones after falling in her bedroom, on Saturday and was unable to get up because of her excess weight.

Paramedics were unable to lift the patient down the stairs.

After an agonising two-hour effort to help the injured woman out of the house, paramedics were forced to seek help.

Firefighters used a Bronto Skylift as a winch to help free the woman from the first floor of her home in Canning Road, Southport.

It took six firemen to pull the winch, and the woman was eventually lowered 15ft through the window.

She was given morphine throughout her ordeal and taken to Southport General Hospital.