Ten firefighters needed to winch obese woman from her home

A morbidly obese woman, Jackie Chamberlain, too fat to walk downstairs was rushed to hospital by firefighters who had to winch her through the roof of her own home using a cherrypicker.

The bed-ridden woman, who weighs 30 stone, needed urgent hospital treatment for serious kidney problems and a suspected blood clot in her leg.



But paramedics could not get the 51-year-old, who had only left her her first-floor maisonette once in the last 12 months, down the flight of stairs to the ambulance. Ten firefighters spent two-and-a-half hours attaching her to wooden pallets before they winched her out through the roof and dropped her safely using a cherrypicker.

Husband Paul, 49, mother-of-four Jackie's full-time carer for 27 years, revealed she was nervous about the rescue due to ''the embarrassment factor''.