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Moment fire crews smash down wall of flat during 17-hour bid to rescue 50st heart attack victim
The Sun ^ | 15 Jan 2023

Posted on 01/16/2023 12:01:34 PM PST by fluorescence

EMERGENCY crews had to smash down the wall of a flat during a 17-hour bid to rescue a 50st heart attack victim. They then built a ramp to get him out his first-floor council pad in an estimated £10,000 operation.

Among those there were more than 25 firefighters, 15 paramedics, five cops and an urban search and rescue team — who normally deal with earthquakes. Council officials were also on hand to survey damage to the block in Acton, West London, which is home to more than 40 residents.

The operation began with a 999 call at 2am on Friday. Medics arrived and treated the heart attack patient — known only as Manuel.

Fire crews were summoned at 9am to knock down an outside wall. They then built a plywood ramp and used ropes to hoist the patient from his king-sized bed on to a stretcher, before wheeling him into an ambulance at 8pm. He was taken to a special ward at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.

Neighbours told how Manuel lives on takeaway deliveries.

Vernon Bannister, 74, said: “Last time I went in he had the biggest TV I have ever seen. This is the third time they’ve tried to take him — the last time the bed broke. Now they’ve had to take half the building apart. There’s other people in this building that are sick and they have to pay for it.”


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1 posted on 01/16/2023 12:01:34 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence

700lbs


2 posted on 01/16/2023 12:04:27 PM PST by EBH
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To: fluorescence

50 stone is equal to 700 lbs.


3 posted on 01/16/2023 12:04:37 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: EBH

You beat many seconds.


4 posted on 01/16/2023 12:05:04 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: fluorescence

50 stone weight is about 700 pounds. Wow a big guy.


5 posted on 01/16/2023 12:05:21 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“50 stone weight is about 700 pounds. Wow a big guy.”

It is oddly comforting to know we are not the only ones with people like that.


6 posted on 01/16/2023 12:09:55 PM PST by beef (Say NO to the WOE (War On Energy))
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To: fluorescence

7 posted on 01/16/2023 12:10:28 PM PST by EEGator
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To: fluorescence

If he wasn’t dead after 17 hours, one has to wonder if he really suffered a heart attack at all.


8 posted on 01/16/2023 12:11:51 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: fluorescence

It is dangerously unhealthy and absurd to let oneself get that obese.


9 posted on 01/16/2023 12:15:25 PM PST by plain talk
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To: fluorescence

rescue a 50st heart attack victim.

How about the first 49 victims? Or better as this his 50th heart attack?


10 posted on 01/16/2023 12:17:14 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: fluorescence

‘EMERGENCY crews had to smash down the wall of a flat during a 17-hour bid to rescue a 50st heart attack victim.”

If they have 50 heart attack victims, it could only be due to a new round of boosters.


11 posted on 01/16/2023 12:17:26 PM PST by BobL
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Or better as this ...

Or was this...


12 posted on 01/16/2023 12:18:50 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: EEGator

He HAD to have a personal talior to make all of his clothing


13 posted on 01/16/2023 12:19:03 PM PST by Deaf and Discerning
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To: BobL

Exactly


14 posted on 01/16/2023 12:19:30 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: fluorescence

Thanks. I had no idea what 50st was.


15 posted on 01/16/2023 12:21:21 PM PST by madison10
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To: fluorescence

This story is sad on many levels and how is it possible for a person to sit at home and eat themselves to death on take-out food in front of a big-screen tv?

Full disclosure - I am assuming that he was “disabled” and on the public teat. It has happened here in the US too.

PS - I am NOT going to suggest this was possibly the vaccine, but at this point who knows? It sounds like the vaccine might be the least of his problems.


16 posted on 01/16/2023 12:24:36 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: plain talk

Not to mention stressing the floors of parking garages.


17 posted on 01/16/2023 12:27:15 PM PST by GingisK
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To: plain talk

I don’t understand how anyone even does it.


18 posted on 01/16/2023 12:27:38 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: fluorescence

There was a similar news story here, in the States, a few years ago about a woman who had to be rescued. If I remember correctly, the crew took out a wall and used a forklift and flat bed car hauler to take her away. Her family complained and threatened to sue over the indignity.


19 posted on 01/16/2023 12:28:01 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Deaf and Discerning

Salads and walking the last two decades were not an option...


20 posted on 01/16/2023 12:30:25 PM PST by EEGator
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