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Emergency services had to use a crane to lift an overweight woman out of her house in Germany.
The woman, said to weigh 250kg, was stretchered out of her home and put into a waiting ambulance.
Firefighters called in the crane to extract the woman when all over ways to get the woman out of the house failed.
The crane, mounted on a lorry, lifted the stretcher out of the top window of the house in Bottrop.
She was later transported in an ambulance to hospital for treatment.
On the same day but on the other side of the world, emergency services in Australia had to use a crane to lift a man of 300kg from his flat.
The 57-year-old man called for an ambulance from his home in a tower block, situated at the end of a bridge in Brisbane, after he suffered an asthma attack.
An emergency services spokeswoman said he was successfully lifted out of the apartment by crane and taken to the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
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