Saved from the flames, cat finds new home with firefighter
Published: March 18, 2006
A volunteer firefighter in Truro, N.S., has been reunited with the furry victim he saved after an apartment building fire a week ago.
Chip Wright was part of the crew called to the blaze in the central Nova Scotian town last Saturday. His first job was to take care of the people who needed minor assistance as they escaped the burning building.
But Wright, a volunteer firefighter for 18 years, wasn’t expecting to assist an animal as well.
“One of the volunteers brought me this cat and it looked dead and I was a little upset,” he said. “But upon a little examination, I noticed it was breathing – barely breathing.”
Wright placed an oxygen mask over the cat’s face, and turned on the tank.
“About 10 minutes, after I started out oxygen on him, he started moving his head a little bit, and he started moving his ears when there was noise.”
After another 10 minutes of oxygen, Wright called his wife to take the cat to a veterinarian.
The feline spent several days at the Central Nova Animal Hospital and made a full recovery.
But the apartment building was gutted in the fire, so the cat’s owner no longer had a place for her pet. She was looking for a good home and that’s when Wright again stepped in to help.
He adopted the cat and renamed her Cinder, after the fire she barely survived.
Cinder has taken some time adjusting to her new home, where there are already three other cats, but Wright said his children love her.
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