Fire crews moved record number of overweight Brits last year – with nearly 2,3K incidents filed

FIRE crews had to move overweight Brits a record number of times last year. There were 2,298 incidents in which they helped cops or paramedics carry obese people in the year up to June, Home Office figures show. 2 A crane had to hoist Jason Holton from his third-floor flat in Camberley, Surrey 2 Jason ballooned to 50st in 2020 That is up from 1,783 the year before and 855 in 2017. Britain’s waistlines have been expanding for decades and severe obesity is three times as common as in the early 1990s. Firefighters are called when it is not safe… Read Full Article