March 31 (UPI) — Firefighters in New York came to the rescue of a cat that spent two days trapped inside the walls of a home’s basement.
The Springville Volunteer Fire Department responded to Jessica Tallant’s home during the weekend when she discovered Freya, a 5-year-old cat belonging to her mother, was inside a basement wall.
Tallant said she had been catsitting Freya for a few days when the feline vanished, and she later realized the cat was inside the walls.
The homeowner captured photos while firefighters worked to locate and free Freya.
“We did try a thermal imaging camera, and it would not pick up the small amount of body heat from the small cat. So we found out where it was, isolated a small area of drywall to be cut so we wouldn’t ruin the person’s whole walls, and it worked. Once we got that out of there, another one of our firemen got in there and grabbed the cat out,” 2nd Assistant Fire Chief Phil Drozd told WGRZ-TV.