{"id":320621,"date":"2026-05-18T01:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320621\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:35:13","slug":"highland-township-firefighters-rescue-cat-from-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320621\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Township Firefighters Rescue Cat from Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandtwp.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-167419 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Highland-Township-Artwork-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highland Township Firefighters Rescue Cat from Tree<\/p>\n<p>(Oakland County Times, Mary 17, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Highland Township, MI \u2013 Firefighters in Highland Township did a special rescue Saturday \u2013\u00a0 a cat stuck in a tree!<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors told firefighters that the cat\u2019s owner was at a funeral for her mother, and the little guy had been stranded up there since yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grateful for our partnership with the Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Search and Rescue Team and appreciate their assistance on the scene today,\u201d the department said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome may view calls like this as a waste of resources, but we see it differently. Situations like these provide valuable training opportunities that help sharpen the skills we rely on when rescuing people in emergency situations. Just as importantly, they help strengthen the connection and trust between first responders and the community we are proud to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that not all animals in trees require fire department service.\u00a0 \u201cThe vast majority will come out on their own, the same way they got up there. This was special extenuating circumstance,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/05\/17\/highland-township-firefighters-rescue-cat-from-tree\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/>Save this post to PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/05\/17\/highland-township-firefighters-rescue-cat-from-tree\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/>Print this post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highland Township Firefighters Rescue Cat from Tree (Oakland County Times, Mary 17, 2026) Highland Township, MI \u2013 Firefighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-320621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}