Firefighters rescue kittens from blast-damaged building in Kherson after hearing meowing by chance – video
Pravda Ukraine
Firefighters have rescued four kittens from beneath a building damaged by an explosion in the city of Kherson. They happened to hear the kittens meowing after putting out the fire.
Source: Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) in Kherson Oblast
Details: A Russian shell struck a household in the city overnight, causing some firewood to burst into flames. Firefighters arrived to extinguish the blaze.
They quickly finished their work – then heard meowing coming from the basement of a damaged building nearby.
“There were both non-residential buildings and a house on the territory of this household. The owners were not there.
The firefighters heard meowing from the basement of one of the damaged buildings. They climbed in through a window and found some kittens. The mother cat was near the building at the time,” Oksana Ulianova, a spokeswoman for the SES press service in Kherson Oblast, told UP. Ukrainska Pravda Zhyttia.
The firefighters took the kittens to a nearby barn, where they were reunited with their mother.
Background: A cat was rescued from the rubble of a house in the city of Myrnohrad in Donetsk Oblast after it had saved its owner by meowing loudly just before a Russian bombardment.
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