It’s an ordinary day when a family in Danbury, Connecticut, suddenly hears wailing cries from outside.
The mysterious noise seems to be coming from the porch.
At first, however, there is nothing to be seen on the porch except a cat with two babies. But the cries are not coming from them.
Baby animals in distress
The screams are coming from a gap between the porch steps and the wall of the house and a small head can be seen in this gap.
A little further down and out of sight at the moment, a second creature is screaming.
Two kittens are stuck there. It is highly likely that they are other children of the cat, who is sitting nearby with her two babies and waiting.
The family immediately calls the Danbury Fire Department.
A really bad squeeze
When the firefighters arrive, they find the two baby animals in a really bad fix.
The gap between the stairs and the house is just wide enough for the kittens to fall in.
However, the gap seems to narrow towards the bottom, as the kittens have not fallen all the way to the floor.
Their heads are stuck between the concrete of the stairs and the wall of the house.
Plopped down
The firefighters cannot simply pull the kittens up or down.
The only option is to widen the gap so that the little cats fall down to the ground.
It would not be a fall from a great height and injury would be virtually impossible. But how can the gap be widened?
The firefighters manage the feat with the help of rescue airbags and wooden wedges. The two kittens plop to the ground.
As expected, nothing happens to them.
Out of the dark hole
But the rescue is not over yet.
Although the cats‘ heads are no longer trapped between concrete, the paws are now stuck in the dark hole under the stairs.
But they don’t have to stay in this hole for long. The firefighters remove two bricks from the wall and the two kittens are finally freed. All’s well that ends well.
Source: The Dodo
