Orange County Installs Lifts on Ambulances to Haul Fatties
Why you so fat, Orange County? The number of 600 pound fatties have gone way up, ashad the number of ambulance drivers callin in sick with strained backs. So now ambulances have a lift gate on the back to get those huge diabetic fatties into the hospitals.
@drudge_report Great news………..I’ll be waiting for my ride! twitter.com/jon_addis/stat…
— Jon Addis (@jon_addis) March 29, 2013
From CBS here:
The Orange County Fire and Rescue spends tens of thousands of dollars for an ambulance to transport patients that weigh up to 1,100 pounds.
Central Florida News 13 reports that the ambulance was purchased after emergency responders had to transport at least two dozen patients who weighed more than 500 pounds last year.
“With some of these morbidly obese patients, we have to send more firefighters just to lift and to move the patient. So once they’re in and we get them to the hospital, someone has to be at the hospital to unload them,” one Orange County fire official told News 13. “That’s pulling a lot of resources from emergency calls just to do that.”
The twitter responses to Drudge’s tweet made me LOL.
Finally! “@drudge_report: County installs lift-gate on ambulance to haul obese patients up to 1,100 lbs… drudge.tw/X1KByK”
— Jabba_The_Hutt (@JabbaThe1stHutt) March 29, 2013
