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FIRE crews dealt with a record 1,640 requests for help from obese Brits trapped in their homes last year. The number has tripled from 587 five years ago and equates to over 30 calls a week.he total was more than the 943 occasions emergency teams were called out in 2020/21 to save stranded pets. A dishonest doctor from East Yorkshire who mistakenly injected a patient with local anaesthetic and steroids in the wrong hip and then tried to cover it up with lies has been struck off. A tribunal found the Hull doctor's actions showed a 'serious departure from good medical practice and throughout his evidence giving he continued to show elements of dishonesty.