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ABBEY WOOD: Firefighters rescue 30-stone woman by removing bedroom window

8:07am Monday 16th August 2010 in


A HYDRAULIC lifting platform had to be brought in and a window removed so firefighters could rescue a 30 stone woman from her house.

Paramedics were called to the home in Rochdale Road, Abbey Wood, at around 9.30pm last night (August 15) because the woman, named locally as Yvonne Griffiths, was having breathing difficulties.

But when they arrived they found they could not get her out on their own so called London Fire Brigade.

Firefighters were going to cut the banister out inside her home and get her out on a board but it was thought to be too dangerous to have her lying down for a long period of time.

Instead they took out the bedroom window out and called for an aerial lifting platform to come from Greenwich fire station.

The woman was said to have been strapped to a board for a maximum of five minutes while she was brought down and put into an ambulance.

She was then taken to a south London hospital.

During the rescue she was constantly on oxygen to assist her breathing.

A London Fire Brigade spokesman says it is possible she had been lying on her back in her bedroom for around 24 hours before the rescue took place.

It is not known why the woman, who is believed to be in her 60s, is overweight.

The rescue involved firefighters from Plumstead and Greenwich and two ambulance crews.

They were there until around 11pm yesterday.

Comments(12)

Biscuit says...
8:21am Mon 16 Aug 10

"It is not known why the woman, who is believed to be in her 60s, is overweight"



Ooh now there's a tricky one!

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Dolph Ziggler says...
8:35am Mon 16 Aug 10

As she was being removed from the house, she continued to stuff poirk pies down her throat saying "It's me glands"!

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joncook says...
11:08am Mon 16 Aug 10

I sincerely hope she has to pay for the fire service and ambulance service. Why should the tax payer have to fork out for someone who clearly hasn't looked after themselves.

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deco says...
11:19am Mon 16 Aug 10

"It is not known why the woman, who is believed to be in her 60s, is overweight", but yet the headline says it all.

Get with it Newsshopper.

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Orp Boy says...
11:45am Mon 16 Aug 10

You couldnt make that bit of journalism up :)

"It is not known why the woman, who is believed to be in her 60s, is overweight"

"I eat the occasional sweet". "Yeah, three-piece suite"

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agl says...
3:17pm Mon 16 Aug 10

mmm three guesses why she's overweight, its not from going to the gym every day !

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Lukeyboy says...
3:44pm Mon 16 Aug 10

I bet she looked like Jabba the Hutt coming down on the platform.

60 stone? What about the other leg?

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Lukeyboy says...
3:45pm Mon 16 Aug 10

She was of course 30stone....

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Orp Boy says...
3:51pm Mon 16 Aug 10

Maybe the breathing troubles started when she reliesed the dominos voucher expired saturday night

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claires01 says...
10:51pm Mon 16 Aug 10

Disgraceful, will she be billed for the additional emergency services required to get her out of her house due to breathing problems, nou doubt as a result of her excessive weight.

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Orp Boy says...
11:29am Tue 17 Aug 10

In todays Sun newspapper it covered this and said " a 30 stone woman who gorged on takeaways " I think the evidence is mounting up about her weight problem

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DJH says...
4:02pm Tue 17 Aug 10

LOL Lukeyboy!

Here we go yet again - a case of the people who do not put into the pot are the most reliant on all the services the pot pays for. Makes me mad!

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