On Saturday morning, a domestic cat in Syracuse helped three residents escape the apartment fire.
When the fire broke out at 8:30 am EST, the residents were asleep.Barry Lasky, the deputy chief of the Syracuse Fire Department, told them that their domestic cat woke them up in time to evacuate Syracuse.
He said that when the firefighters arrived at the scene, the fire was strong, but they controlled the fire and extinguished it within 20 minutes.
The fire damage was limited to the first floor of the two-story apartment, but as firefighters needed to turn off the power to the entire building, all residents needed to evacuate.
The Red Cross disaster relief team will assist residents in resettling temporary shelters.
According to fire officials, when a fire broke out on the first floor of a building in Syracuse on Saturday morning, a cat woke up the residents of the house and everyone was evacuated. https://t.co/LHDcbkmuQY
— Fox5NY (@fox5ny) November 21, 2021
Officials said the cat saved the day and reminded residents that the Syracuse apartment was on fire https://t.co/cmPgkyfck1
— KCCI News (@KCCINews) November 21, 2021
