Turns out firefighters are not the only ones who can rescue cats.
In what was described as a team effort, Prince George RCMP recently retrieved a feline who was stuck on the porch roof of a Vancouver Street home.
It all began when Cst. Catherine Pescolla was flagged down by an elderly lady as she was returning to the detachment at the end of a busy night shift.
Just as the woman stated, Pescolla found the crying kitty perched in a place from where it could not get down.
No ladder was nearby and Pescolla could not reach high enough, so she called in two taller colleagues, Cst. Ville Lempinen and Cst. Erin Devereux, to help out.
After a few unsuccessful attempts to lure the cat onto a shovel, Devereux stood on a chair while secured by Lempinen and reached up with a box in hopes the cat would climb in.
And to everyone's surprise, it did.
"The cat was unhurt and seemed happy to be back in the arms of its owner," Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass added.
Exactly how the cat got into the jam in the first place is not known.
