article_snippet.sent: In what was likened to a ‘military operation’ a pair of cranes struggle to retrieve a ‘casualty’ from a house, while fire engines, police, a medical team and other officials stand by.
article_snippet.sent: The seven-hour operation involved two cranes, seven police cars, two fire engines and 11 medics .
article_snippet.sent: Calling the ambulance meant a major logistical operation which must have cost thousands of pounds in manpower and equipment hire .
article_snippet.sent: A larger crane had to be summoned which necessitated closing half-a-mile of the main road for an hour .
article_snippet.sent: In Georgia extraordinary case Georgia’s extraordinary case meant a major logistical operation which must have cost thousands of pounds in manpower and equipment hire.
article_snippet.sent: At 11.30am, two fire tenders pulled up followed by a mobile crane, an essential piece of equipment when lifting a 55st woman on a reinforced stretcher.
article_snippet.sent: A larger crane had to be summoned which necessitated closing half-a-mile of the main road for an hour.
article_snippet.sent: By the time A larger crane arrived, eyewitnesses estimated the number of specialists in attendance to be as many as 40.
article_snippet.sent: The rescuers had to demolish the top half of the semi and build a scaffold in order to support a ramp to the pavement.
article_snippet.sent: Roof supports had to be inserted and Georgia was lifted onto a special stretcher using a crane.
article_snippet.sent: Again a reinforced ambulance took Georgia to hospital.
highlights_snippet.sent: First crane was not strong enough to lift her so a larger crane had to be summoned which forced closure of road in Aberdare, south Wales .
  