Firefighters had to take apart a car to rescue an adventurous kitten which got itself stuck in the engine.
A South Wales Fire and Rescue Crew from Caerphilly were called to Thomas Street, in Trethomas, at around 2pm on Monday, August 21, after a six-week-old kitten was found trapped underneath a car bonnet.
The firefighters accessed the engine by removing the front passenger side wheel, and safely removed the animal in a process which took around half an hour.
And this was a good use of fire service resources! I trust the cat owner was given the bill.
I can understand the basis of you comment but I actually think that this was a useful way to spend half an hour. I think of it this way – there is a casualty that canot speak nor free themselves from machinery. The fire crew had to work out a method of accessing and freeing the ‘casuatly’ without causing further injury.
The fire brigade has a long history of getting cows out of holes in the ground, cats from trees, dogs from rabbit warrens, sheep from wells, etc that this has become almost a cliche. As well as good public relations for the firefighters it does give them a real life situation where they can hone their life saving skills for use in an emergency involving humans. This was just as useful as a dry run in training and probably more satisfying for the crew involved.
I really don’t think the simple task of removing a wheel qualifies as honing their skills for a real life or death emergency, the owner of the vehicle could have done that. Shameful, a sad reflection of today’s snowflake society, they take no responsibility for anything and expect others to do everything for them, pathetic!
Oh yes, I’m with you on today’s society! I think I could have got the cat to safety on my own too, The fact is that many people can’t remove a car’s wheel and that it also would not occur to a lot of people that removing it would solve the problem.
Still there is no harm in firefighters doing this kind of work, they always have, in my experience and I’m 56 years old. If there had been an incident such as a road crash or fire they would have left immediately to deal with the higher priority.