A MAN weighing 40 stone ( 560 POUNDS) was lifted out of a first floor window by a fire crew’s aerial ladder because he was too fat to fit down the stairs. Paramedics called in a team of 25 firefighters after David Bond, 59, suffered breathing problems. They had to remove his bedroom window frame to put him on a stretcher and lower him down. A garden fence had to be smashed down and telephone cables cut to allow the firefighters to get access to the window. Mr Bond suffered a suspected heart attack during the rescue and paramedics spent 35 minutes resuscitating him.

He is in a “critical” condition in hospital. A neighbour said: “He really is quite a big fellow. They had to secure the fire engine to the ground with bolts and then get up to a window to get him out. “It took nine firemen just to lift him from the platform to the ambulance. The whole thing lasted two hours.”

Norfolk Fire Service’s Tim Edwards said: “It seems a lot of resources but it was a life at risk.”

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