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 jellen rated 17 months ago - From the page: "The call was given as 'House fire - persons reported inside', an interesting job. So at 1am in the morning we fly through the streets to find firefighters having just dowsed the fire that has wrecked a house. I spoke to their top man and he told me that they had checke...
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 philipnorton42 rated 8 months ago- Put the thing down! Let it die!
The last thing we need is another cat killing all of our native wildlife. If I had to chose between sparrows, hedgehogs and field mice, or another cat, I would go for the sparrows every day! Cat owners should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this!
- tishykb rated 8 months ago
- hero in my book. i'd hope if something tragic happened to my pets, someone would have the decency enough to try to save them for me. mad props to first responders out there *thumbs up*
- jellen rated 17 months ago
- From the page: "The call was given as 'House fire - persons reported inside', an interesting job. So at 1am in the morning we fly through the streets to find firefighters having just dowsed the fire that has wrecked a house. I spoke to their top man and he told me that they had checked the entire house and that there wasn't any people inside.
It's then that I looked down to see a firefighter on his knees giving oxygen to what I thought was a baby.
With a longer look I was extremely happy to see that it wasn't a baby.
It was a cat.
The poor little soul was covered in soot and was having real trouble breathing - it was panting like a dog, and the rate of it's breathing was incredibly fast. The firefighters were giving him oxygen and trying to keep him warm (as he'd been soaked by the firefighter's hoses).
One of the firefighters seemed a bit upset, "Don't lose him, we had a cat die on us last week".
I let them know that we would take the cat.
So we picked him up and took him into the back of the ambulance. . . We dried it off and gave it oxygen - in the picture you can see a McIlroy funnel which is used to give oxygen to neonates.
This is the first (and hopefully only) time I've ever needed to use it.
The cat really didn't look well, I'm no vet and I've never kept a cat, but I could see that this was serious. . . I radioed our Control.
"Hello Control, erm... This is going to sound weird", how best to phrase this? "We have no human casualties at this call, but I do have a very sick cat with smoke inhalation, I'd like to take it to the 24hr vet hospital at Wanstead. Mainly so that I can sleep tonight. Can you ring them and let them know that we are on our way please?"
There was a long pause, the controller was probably talking to her senior. . . "Roger that ambulance - we'll show you headed to the hospital, do you know their phone number?"
. . .another crew who had been listening in on the conversation broke in and gave Control the number to the hospital.'Smoky' the cat
We whizzed down there and was met by a vet and veterinary nurse who did lots of clever things to it, including giving aminophylline and doing the worlds smallest venous cut-down. It's breathing became a lot better and the staff seemed hopeful for it's chances. We gave them the address of the house so that they could reunite the animal with it's owners.
Now some folk will moan that we used an ambulance to look after an animal - but this 'patient' was the only one who actually needed an ambulance that night, we'd been dealing with drunks for much of the shift. So if you want to moan, then moan away - but it was good for the mental health of my crewmate and myself. . .
Thanks to kind-hearted emergency specialists everywhere!
- anneliese rated 17 months ago
- Many thumbs up (at least 4) to this EMT who saved a cat. Even the lives of our pets are precious.
- kokopellimink rated 17 months ago
- an EMT saves a cat :)
- KarenAK rated 17 months ago
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Ok, this story saves my day. There is SOME decency in this world today.
And those that complain about how an ambulance was used to rescue a cat - well, I hope those cold-hearted, small minded egomaniacs who think they are better than a cat will rot in hell.
The Only Time You Will See A Picture Of One Of My Patients
The call was given as 'House fire - persons reported inside', an interesting job. So at 1am in the morning we fly through the streets to find firefighters having just dowsed the fire that has wrecked a house. I spoke to their top man and he told me that they had checked the entire house and that there wasn't any people inside.
It's then that I looked down to see a firefighter on his knees giving oxygen to what I thought was a baby.
With a longer look I was extremely happy to see that it wasn't a baby.
It was a cat.
The poor little soul was covered in soot and was having real trouble breathing - it was panting like a dog, and the rate of it's breathing was incredibly fast. The firefighters were giving him oxygen and trying to keep him warm (as he'd been soaked by the firefighter's hoses).
One of the firefighters seemed a bit upset, "Don't lose him, we had a cat die on us last week".
I let them know that we would take the cat.
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