Firefighters Use Crane to Lift Obese Person with Coronavirus from Flat

CREDIT: London Fire Brigade Facebook

Firefighters in London had to use an aerial ladder to retrieve an obese person who is believed to have coronavirus.

The ambulance service called the fire brigade to assist at 4.01pm and the operation until 5.55pm, during which a section Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush, West London, was closed off.

The firefighters were decked out in full protective face masks fitted with air filters as they collected the patient from a second floor window at a block of flats.

Once the patient reached ground level, she was tended to by hazmat-suited paramedics.

Immediately afterwards, the firefighters’ gear was removed for decontamination.

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