Family's terror as ambulance blocked by holidayers while 7-year-old suffered life threatening asthma attack in Burnham Market

A Burnham Market family was left terrified as an ambulance they had called was blocked by holiday makers parking on the road at Sutton Estate.

Rory's mum woke up to her seven-year-old son Rory Taylor making grunting noises and realised that he couldn't breathe.

His 17-year-old brother Reilly Taylor, called an ambulance as his mother gave Rory his inhaler.

Rory has down-syndrome, asthma, hearing and eyesight problems and a rare bowel condition called hirschsprungs disease that causes excrement to become stuck in the bowel.

Rebecca Fisher,27, an influencer from the area, spoke about the incident.

She said: "Rory is seen regularly at the QEH. On the Thursday, he was his normal self. He wasn't poorly and was running around like any other seven year old little boy.

"We live in a village that has a lot of holiday homes and quite a few of them are near where my mum lives and these holiday cottages do not have their own parking so the people on holiday park where ever they like. We have had parking problems before like parking on the junction and blocking driveways but this time was life threatening.

"A car had double parked across the road from a resident's car. When the ambulance finally arrived,it took an hour to get there which was traumatic enough in itself.

"It couldn't get through at all. It was stuck. Some of the neighbours came out and tried to find the car owners but they had no luck. The paramedics put on the lights and the siren but again with no luck to the car owner coming out to move the car.

"After around 10 minutes, the paramedics didn't know what to do."

Rory had to be carried out of the family home to the ambulance by his older brother, who scooped him up in his arms and ran down the road to get him to the emergency vehicle.

The seven-year-old was later diagnosed with pneumonia and is now recovering, but the incident is one "they will never forget or stop talking about".

Mrs Fisher said: "The paramedics were shocked that this had even happened.It was a scary event and one that we will never forget and never stop talking about.

"Rory is now home and recovering from pneumonia.Parking in silly places can be a life or death situation and people need to think about all emergency vehicles."