20220430 ‘Every few steps there was a cat lying on the floor’: How SCDF officers saved 13 cats from fire
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‘Every few steps there was a cat lying on the floor’: How SCDF officers saved 13 cats from fire
Updated: 2022-04-30
SCDF personnel tending to the cats rescued from the flat in Fajar on April 21, 2022. PHOTO: SCREENGRABS FROM ITSHAMBALI/TIKTOK
SINGAPORE – When firefighter Juliet Oh entered a smoke-filled Housing Board flat on April 21, she and her team found 14 cats strewn across the floor.
She said: “We found one, then another, and another. Every few steps there was a cat lying on the floor.”
The two-storey maisonette was filled with so much smoke that nothing was visible, but using her handheld thermal imaging device Lieutenant Oh, 29, and her team were able to locate and evacuate all the cats, she told The Straits Times in an interview on Thursday (April 28).
The firefighters were responding to a fire at Block 422 Fajar Road, in Bukit Panjang.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers were alerted to the fire at 8.30am and had to force their way into the unit.
No humans were home at the time.
Web Source: The Straits Times