A home caught fire, and help was stuck in the mud. Some Lehigh Acres residents face that danger. 

Thursday evening on Wildcat Road, right off of SR 82, an emergency vehicle tried to make its way to a house fire when it got stuck.

“We have had an awful lot of flooding in the last month or two,” said Robert Heers. “Unfortunately pools into the roads making it incredibly difficult for us to get through."

That’s the reason a Lehigh Acres ambulance was unable to get through.

“When vehicles like them get stuck, they can't do their job. They need to be able to provide emergency services for everyone in the community,” said Heers.

But when it comes to maintaining the privately owned road, it's the resident's responsibility to fix it.

“This is a private road this is not a county maintained road," said Stephan Kendall. "It is up to the neighborhood to take care of it, so we as the owners are responsible."

Neighbors like Kendall and Heers just don’t think they can handle maintaining the current road, under the given circumstances. 

“It's hard to get with the 70 or so houses and 3,000 some acres of the subdivision, it's hard to get it done," said Kendall. "It's four miles for this one road. We've got like half a dozen side roads."

Since Hurricane Irma was an unprecedented natural disaster, Kendall and Heers hope the county will make an exception and help out before another emergency vehicle ends up like the one from Lehigh Acres.