A young kitten is back with its owner after Moncton firefighters used an aerial ladder to rescue the animal from a tree on Bissett Avenue.
Fire Chief Keith Guptill said Truck 4 responded just before 1 p.m. on Thursday after the owner tried earlier in the day to get the cat down.
He added that the call was handled as public assistance, and crews drove to the home without lights or sirens because the situation wasn’t an emergency.
Guptill said firefighters located the kitten and raised the aerial ladder to reach it.
“We deployed one of our aerial units to go over, and we were able to successfully gather the little fellow out of the tree and hand him back to the owners,” he said.
He also mentioned that the kitten was frightened but cooperative, which made the rescue straightforward.
“The other part of it was too where it’s so young, it’s just it just seemed to want help. Sometimes older cats will put up quite a fight. But uh this one that wasn’t the case,” he said.
Guptill said the rescue took about 20 minutes, and no injuries were reported.
