Woman, 87, rescued after three days on floor

Fire crews had to climb through a tiny window to get inside the home of the woman in her 80s

A firefighter squeezed through a tiny window to rescue an 87-year-old woman who spent three days on the floor following a fall at her home.

The woman, from Bramcote in Nottinghamshire, managed to raise the alarm to a person nearby at about 04:00 GMT on Thursday.

East Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics then made contact with the woman, who was on the floor inside, before an on-call firefighter from Stapleford accessed her home through a small window.

Station manager Kevin Tedds said the woman was dehydrated and confused but otherwise unharmed by her ordeal.

She was taken to hospital, and will be visited again by fire crews for a safe and well check when she has recovered.

'A bit bruised'

Mr Tedds said: "She was a little bit confused at the time but we think she had been down for about three days before anybody heard her calling for help.

"Her door was fantastic in terms of security but very, very difficult for us to get through.

"Firefighters come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and we formulated a plan to send our smallest-framed team member through a tiny window - the kind I only stood a chance of getting through about 18 years ago before the dad bod."

Mr Tedds said the woman was "very thirsty, very confused, and looked a little bit battered and a bit bruised".

"She was very grateful to see us," he added.

"We wish her a speedy recovery and have made plans to revisit her soon."