30st man told: walk to an ambulance or we’ll tear down wall

A 30-STONE man who said he was too weak to leave his bed to go to hospital was shocked into getting up when firemen threatened to demolish his bedroom.

A 999 worker had attached a drip to the 50-year-old patient but told him he would have to go to hospital for lifesaving treatment for sepsis.

But the patient told the emergency services that he could not get down the stairs of his home in Leeds on his own.

Fire crews said they would either have to tear down the bedroom wall or take the window out to lower him to the ground.

The man then got up, was helped down the stairs by the firemen, and taken to hospital by ambulance.

A West Yorkshire fire service spokesman said: “We received the call at 6.13am to attend at a property in Bramley, Leeds.

“He was quite poorly and initially we thought we would have to take a wall down but he wasn’t keen.

“So that spurred him into getting to his feet and he

‘Quite often in these cases we would have to take the bedroom window out’

managed to walk down the stairs with our assistance, without our having to remove parts of his house.

“He was then taken to Leeds General Infirmary by ambulance for treatment.

“Quite often in these cases we would have to take the bedroom window out but fortunately we did not need to do that on this occasion.”