THREE fire engines were called on to help paramedics rescue a man who was too fat to be carried out of his house.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service personnel asked for help to lift the obese patient, thought to be in his 60s, from his first floor bed on Bankfield Park Avenue in Taylor Hill this morning.
Crews from Huddersfield and Elland were dispatched to the property, where the man was suffering from blood pressure problems and needed urgent attention.
They attached ropes to a tree outside his window for support and hoisted him down the stairs on a specially designed sheet.
At one stage eight firefighters had hold of the sheet to carry the man, thought to weigh as much as 30 stones, into the waiting ambulance.
The whole operation took about an hour.
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