The obese American woman was evacuated from her home yesterday for health reasons. She has lived in the French town of Stenay on the Meuse, near the border with Belgium, for 20 years. The woman had previously refused all medical assistance.
To transfer an American woman weighing 391 kilo from her home to a French hospital, 40 firefighters and 10 police officers had to be deployed in Stenay, in northern France. Walls of the woman’s house had to be demolished to get the woman out, TV channel France 3 reports.
At least 60 people arrived at the scene to perform the operation, which had been planned for several months. A special ambulance for obese people was called in from Belgium and used to transport the woman.
The operation took an hour. Walls and ceilings of the house had to be demolished to get the woman out and transferred to a hospital in Nancy. Some streets in the area were cordoned off.
"An intervention of this type, with such complexity, has never happened before in France," Bernard Burckel, a member of the local government told France 3.
