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Dec
27
Cat escapes holiday fire by squeezing behind wall
The Associated Press
MANITOWOC, Wisconsin — Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures.
A full-grown cat crawled into a 1.5 inch opening in the wall to escape a Christmas Eve fire in Manitowoc and was found in good health Christmas Day.
“It’s amazing that an animal can shrink down and do what it has to do to get into a small opening,” Battalion Chief Ken Cayemberg said.
The cat squeezed into the opening for a door that slid into the wall between the living room and foyer, he said. The door had been removed earlier.
The blaze started around 7:40 p.m. near a wood-burning fireplace Christmas Eve. Firefighters and the homeowner, Steven Lorenz, unsuccessfully looked for the cat that evening.
They went back the next day and found him around 2:30 p.m. Lorenz saw the cat’s eye sparkle, Cayemberg said. The cat wasn’t making any noises.
“They were surprised,” Cayemberg said.
A firefighter used a pole with a loop at the end to pull the cat out of the crevice, Cayemberg said. The cat was in an undamaged wall that was about 15 feet from most of the damage, Cayemberg said.
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