When the cat Fluffy disappeared from her home in Navarre, Ohio, her owner found her high in a tree. She wasn't immediately worried because everyone told her that cats always came down when they were hungry.
That was on a Friday. On Sunday, when the white cat still wouldn't budge and stayed high in the tree, Ellen Albert called Erie Valley Fire and Rescue for help with her pet.
"Fluffy was about 40 feet in the air. Too high for the ladders (梯子) we carry, " Ryan Shanower of Erie Valley Fire and Rescue says. "She was also near some power lines that caused danger. We tried cat food on day two of her being there and hoped by evening she'd be down. High winds and hard rain on day one evening and most of day two made the rescue difficult. "
Fire Chief Rick Annen made his guess about how the cat ended up so high in the tree. Annen saw hawks (鹰) sitting on a building across the street and noticed Fluffy's collar (颈圈) was missing. He supposed that a hawk had picked up Fluffy by the collar and that she had gotten free and fallen high in the tree.
By day three, the rain had stopped, but Fluffy still wouldn't, or couldn't, come down. The fire department reached out to a local tree service to see if they'd lend a hand to the frightened cat. They showed up with a bucket truck (铲斗车) they use to cut tall trees away. Once the bucket truck was up in the air, Fluffy was down in a minute or two.
It was a happy ending, for sure, but not a common day's work for these firefighters.
