Crane, cargo container and flatbed truck needed to move 1,000 lb plus man to new nursing home
PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI/CNN) - A Rhode Island nursing home will use a crane to move a patient who weighs nearly 1,200 pounds.
The facility is in receivership and could be closed soon.
It is over $2 million in debt.
Firefighters are going to have to cut open Richard Butler's door to get him out of his room.
They'll also have to build a ramp to move him to the top of the building, where the crane will pick him up.
Butler says he's nervous about the procedure, but a spokesperson for the state's office of health and human services say he will be under medical supervision the whole time.
Butler will be transferred to a hospital in Cranston.
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Butler weighing more than 1,000 lbs (450 kg, 71.5 stones) was placed inside a cargo container, then lifted by a crane, before being loaded onto a flatbed truck and taken from Providence in Rhode Island to his new home in Cranston last Sunday .
The coalition to move Butler to his new home included Providence and Cranston Fire Departments, Lifespan, the Hospital Association of Rhode Island and Bay Crane Northeast.
The whole operation to get Butler from Bannister House to Eleanor Slater Hospital took nearly seven hours.