On September 30, 2010 around 2 p m Mobile fire department Engine Company 22 was asked to respond to the USA college campus to rescue a wild kitten that was in a drainage pipe by the campus library. Engine 22 and crew arrived at the campus library and was met by students that had heard the kitten trapped in the drainage pipe.

After engine 22 had been at the scene for a few minutes the captain called Tapia Fire Station and asked truck 5 to come assist them in rescuing the kitten. The students showed the fire crew what drainage pipe they had heard the kittens me-yow for help.
 

A Crew member took of the cover while another crew member went to the fire truck to get an attic ladder to put down into the small opening of the drain. When the crew member with the attic ladder returned the ladder was lowered into the drain opening and then one of the crew members climbed down the ladder to investigate.
 

The crew member within the drain could hear the kittens me-yow for help but the drainage pipe was too small for a person to crawl through to reach the trapped kitten. The captain and crew came up with a plan to rescue the kitten.

The plan was for one firefighter to climb down into the drainage opening past where the kitten was trapped and given the booster hose line to flush the kitten down the drain to another firefighter in a drain hole with a traffic cone to plug the hole so when the kitten came sliding down the pipe the cone would catch it from getting away.
 

The plan was put into action and the signal was given to charge the booster hose line and the firefighter opened the nozzle a started to flush the kitten out. It wasn’t but a few seconds after the water started flowing that the wild kitten ran towards the firefighter waiting with the traffic cone in place.
 

The plan worked perfect and the kitten was safely caught within the traffic cone where it could not harm itself or anyone else. After handing the traffic cone up to a crew member above ground one crew member put on his fire gloves to keep from being bitten while the other crew member held the traffic cone.
 

A student had a bed sheet that the wild kitten was wrapped into. While two of the students were trying to calm the kitten one of the students was bitten on the finger. The student that was bitten was given medical treatment and her finger was wrapped with gauze to stop the bleeding. The student was asked if they have had a tetanus shot within the past year because the kitten may have rabies. The student was advised to be check by her primary doctor.
 

One of the students there on the scene said she would take the kitten if no one else wanted it. So it’s another successful kitty rescue by firefighters of the Mobile fire department.
 

Click on the link below to view another kitty rescue by Mobile firefighters.

http://www.examiner.com/firehouse-in-mobile/firefighters-rescue-cat-trapped-under-car

http://factoidz.com/mobile-firefighters-rescue-wild-kitten-from-drainage-pipe/