Mother-of-three Coral Gassama has thanked the emergency services for helping to get her new baby to hospital during a snow blizzard on Saturday.

The 33-year-old occupational therapist had planned to drive herself and two-month-old Omar to A&E at Margate but could not get out of Clare Road in Whitstable, where she lives.

So she called an ambulance which also got stuck at several locations and finally in Borstal Hill.

Coral said: “Omar was having breathing difficulties and I was starting to get quite anxious but the paramedics were brilliant.

“People also came out and tried to help push the ambulance but it wasn’t going anywhere.

Then one of the paramedics went over to the fire station to see if they could help.

“The next thing I knew was that they had wheeled out one of their own fire trucks and Omar and I were taken on board and driven to hospital.

“My husband, Basiru was working in Westgate and he met us at the hospital and Omar and I stayed in for a couple of nights until he was given the all-clear.”

She added: “I just want to thank everyone who helped because it was quite a drama at the time for us.”

Meanwhile, motorists have praised residents who braved the weather to help dig out their snow-bound cars during a blizzards at St Thomas’s Hill, Canterbury, on Saturday.