Tyne and Wear Fire Brigade have rescued 17 people in the last year who are too large to move on their own.

The figures, obtained by a Freedom of Information Request to the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, have shown the number of such rescues, known as Bariatric rescues, has remained high over the years.

Reported by The Sheilds Gazette. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.