Medics were forced to collaborate with firefighters and use a crane to move a morbidly obese man who got stuck inside his house.
53-year-old Alain Panabière from Perpignan, France, found himself trapped on the first floor of his city home after suffering a fall and reportedly breaking his leg back in the summer of 2019.
Due to the man’s size and the weight of 660 pounds, the medics could not move Alain out of his home via the staircase because he couldn’t fit through the door.
For one year following his fall, Alain has remained bound to the floor while being cared for and fed by his brother.
Now, after weeks of preparations, a group of over fifty firefighters, medics, and police officers were ready to carry out a rescue mission involving the use of a crane.
According to the reports, the authorities had to evacuate other residents of the historic building in which Alain’s home is located before making a huge hole in the wall to gain access to the 53-year-old. They then used a custom-made bed and a crane to transport Alain from the first floor to the ground.
“We adapt to all kinds of situations. We have already intervened to lift people but never of this corpulence and under these conditions,” Didier Hugon, the director of the company that provided the crane, said in an interview with L’Independant.
The successful operation followed after a significant delay caused by the pandemic and after the relation between Alain and the local authorities started to heat up.
Previously, in October, the 53-year-old filed a complaint against the authorities as he accused them of “non-assistance to anyone in danger,” Vosges Matin reported.
Responding to the allegations, the local authorities highlighted the “volatile behavior of the Panabière brothers” and suggested they were “uncooperative.”
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