SOUTHAMPTON fire crews were called in to help with an obese patient.
Crews from Hightown and St Mary’s attended a flat at Riverview House, Wharncliffe Road, Woolston, at 8pm on Friday after they were called in by the ambulance service.
They helped paramedics to get the 61-year-old woman down the stairs, providing manpower as the woman was brought down in a specially designed chair.
There was no lift.
The fire service said she was then taken to hospital in a special ambulance designed for larger patients.
South Central Ambulance Service confirmed they had been called to a woman for a “medical episode”, not considered to be life threatening – she had initially called 111, but they had then routed the call to 999.
It sent two ambulances, a community responder and its hazardous area response team.
The woman was taken to Southampton General Hospital.
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