44-stone man removed from his home by crane
12/05/2006 - 12:57:13A 44-stone man had to be removed from his home in France by a crane because he could no longer leave the apartment through the door.
In an operation that took three hours to complete and involved 12 firefighters, the man was taken out of his apartment through a window and transported by a van to Strasbourg’s University Hospital for treatment, said fire chief Pierre-Jean Cheze.
The man lived on the fourth floor of an apartment building in the Strasbourg suburb of Illkirch and wanted to leave for a scheduled doctor’s appointment yesterday afternoon when he realised he could no longer fit through the door and called the fire brigade, Cheze said.
“For a man of his size, it was naturally very difficult to get out on his own,” Cheze told BleuAlsace Radio.
