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When you fall down going to the bathroom and they have to call in the SWAT Team.

Doug Hempstead of the Ottawa Sun has more:

OTTAWA — It took high-angle rescue firefighters two hours to remove a 500-pound man from his Gatineau, Que., apartment early Tuesday morning.

The call came in around 12:30 a.m., initially to paramedics, from a man who complained of back problems.

He was unable to get himself out of his fourth floor apartment.

Paramedics were unsuccessful as well and called in specialized firefighters to help.

According to fire spokesman Guy Dagenais, high-angle rescue crews worked for two hours to get the man out of the building.

"We had to call in special equipment," Dagenais said. "Mainly a stretcher that was strong enough to hold the man."

In the end, firefighters used a basket stretcher with ropes and pulleys.

Paramedics treated and transported the man to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

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