Cat Blasted Free With Fire Hose

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YONKERS — A cat stuck in a tree for a week has been blasted to safety with a high-pressure fire hose.

Volunteers with an outstretched sheet made the save as the cat — soaked and hungry but unharmed — was hosed out of the tree by Yonkers firefighters last night.

“Everyone was cheering,” an artist and animal rescuer, Greg Speirs, who was among about 50 people assembled beneath the willow tree, said.

For days, the fearful feline had clung to branches several stories high, ignoring humans who banged cans of cat food and climbed ladders that were just out of reach.

It took two shots with the hose to do the trick.

“As soon as the cat landed it jumped out and ran into the woods,” Mr. Speirs said today.

“Some kids helped us bring the cat back, and a man said he would adopt the cat right on the spot,” Mr. Speirs said. “You can’t come up with a nicer ending than that.”


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