Pets
Firefighter Crawls Beneath Truck To Save Kitten From Calamity
The resident had unknowingly driven around with a 2-month-old kitten lodged between his pickup truck's exterior floor and the gas tank.
BRANDON, FL — A 2-month-old kitten nearly lost one of its nine lives but got a reprieve thanks to the efforts of a Hillsborough County firefighter.
On Saturday morning, the crew of Engine 18 in Seffner was flagged down by a man in the parking lot of Publix. The man told the firefighters that he was getting out of his pickup truck when he heard the cries of a kitten.
He was surprised to discover he'd been driving around with a kitten lodged between the pickup truck's exterior floor and the gas tank.
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FIrefighter Elaine Owens promptly crawled under the truck and managed to extricate the kitten, which was no worse for wear after its close call.
A bystander offered to take the kitten home, clean it up and give it a home.
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Owens, a lifelong Brandon resident and graduate of Bloomingdale High School, has been a Hillsborough County firefighter since October 2019.
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