Overweight people have to be rescued three times a day by brave firefighters.
Figures released by the Home Office have revealed that fire crews are called out thrice daily to winch free obese Brits in a 'bariatric rescue'.
The number of incidents in the country has doubled in three years from 587 in 2016 to 1,209 in 2019, Sun Online reports.
Regular incidents involve ambulance crew being forced to turn to firefighters as the obese patients need urgent medical treatment but are trapped from leaving their home because of their weight.
John Grove, 51, from Wolverhampton, was rescued from his fifth-floor flat last month for the second time in two years.
It took six hours to winch the morbidly obese 48st man free using specialist hydraulic equipment which removes doors and walls.
The rescue is believe to have clocked up a £10,000 bill.
Fire crews were called in to removed the body of Britain's fattest man Carl Thompson when he died in his flat in Dover in 2015.
in 2012 Britain's fattest teenager Georgia Davis had to be rescued from her home in Aberdare, near Merthyr Tydfil,after her organs started to fail.
The 19-year-old weighed 63st needed hospital treatment after abandoning another diet specialist had put her on in a bid to save her life.
It took the rescue team eight hours to free her from her home.
Rescue operations can include prising fat people out of their bath with taxpayers paying an annual cost of £500,000 for the call outs.
Fire crews use 40st mannequins to train how to rescue fat obese people.
