BRITAINS fattest man last night told The Sun of the moment he had to be lifted out of his home by a crane., Jason Nemer Holton, 30, is classed as super obese and suffers from extreme water retention., The condition, Lymphoedema, has plagued him for six years – until he needed urgent medical help this month., But at a whopping 50 stone, homebound Jason panicked when an ambulance driver had to call the fire brigade., More than 30 firemen lined the street outside the row of shops that Jason lives above with his mum on October 11., They were forced to pull the entire window of his room from the wall and place straps around his 5ft11 frame., A crane was driven down the road – which had been closed to traffic – as dozens of Jasons neighbours gawped., He was hoisted from his bed and lowered into an ambulance outside a nail bar in sleepy Blackwater, Hampshire., Jason said: The Lymphoedema got to my groin area and I was carrying it, it meant I couldnt even stand up., My oxygen levels had dropped and they wanted me to go to hospital. They wanted me to get water taken away from my heart and lungs and the rest of my body., I was in my room. At first they wanted to slide me down the stairs, but my groin was so swollen that something major could have happened., But the London Fire Brigade had to drive the specialist crane to my address., They took my windows out and laid me on a platform – and I was lifted out in a bed that was made with a fibreglass cover underneath. I was very nervous., I was worried. I wondered if the crane would carry my weight. I was on codeine a lot because of the pain so that helped me from overthinking the situation., They told me theres a possibility that I could lose oxygen and things could go wrong., But they were happy how it went., Luckily, the damage caused by the rescue was covered by insurance., Jason is thought to be Britains heaviest after taking the crown from 52-year-old actor Barry Austin., The star of Britains Fattest Man has since slimmed down from his own 50 stone weight, making Jason the king., Carl Thompson was the heaviest man in the UK, weighing 65 st, until he died in 2015., Meanwhile Jason has said he has to consume tens of thousands of calories every day in order to keep his massive body., He has no problem ploughing through takeaways on a nightly basis and can scoff a weeks calories – in a day., But his extreme weight now means he must stay in hospital until a suitable accommodation can be found for him., The council are looking to move him away from his mums bought property to a council home in nearby Fleet., He said: Ive always been overweight, even throughout school, but I was always independent until I turned 16., I gained weight and struggled with my mental health. I got bigger as time went by, I got to a point where I just stopped moving., I just stopped bothering with life, I couldnt be dealt with it. Then it was just gaining and gaining., Then I stopped being mobile., His doting mum, carer Lista Holton, 52, has helped him throughout his life., Jason, who is now being assessed in hospital, added: Im feeling incredibly heavy. They say it will go in time., We revealed this year how fire crews are called out three times a day to rescue fat Brits., They answered a record 1,209 incidents last year involving Large Man lifted out of window – SUN EXCLUSIVE
FIREFIGHTERS are called out to move more than 40 obese people each week, figures show.
And some rescues last year took up more than half their working day.
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Crews were required to help move overweight people in their homes so often that training now involves 250kg dummies and specialist lifting equipment.
Figures show fire crews were called 2,280 times in England to help with bariatric rescues — a rise of five per cent on 2023.
It is four times the 489 people helped a decade ago.
Last year, 289 overweight people were each helped for more than two hours, with 53 rescues taking four hours or more.
Experts said increasing numbers of people could not leave their homes and when an emergency struck they needed help.
On occasions, fire crews have to remove doors to assist.
One of the longest rescues was in Acton, West London, in 2023 when crews smashed a wall in a 17-hour op to rescue a 315kg heart attack victim.
In 2020, Jason Holton was lifted by a crane from his third-storey window in Camberley, Surrey.
The number of rescues of obese people last year was higher than the callouts to save pets from heights and calls for children trapped in lifts.
It comes after a survey found ambulance services spent almost £30million on vehicles and equipment to transport obese patients in the past five years.
Chair of the National Obesity Forum Tam Fry said: “Despite the successes of weight loss drugs, bariatric rescues will be needed for some time to come.”
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