Unusual rescue operation Firemen called out to rescue kitten hiding inside a car dashboard
Bad Godesberg · Firemen took three hours to rescue a tiny kitten from inside the dashboard of a car on Friday. It had hidden there after being found in a delicatessen car park. The car owner has now given it a home.
Firemen were called out to an unusual case on Godesberger Allee on Friday evening. A weeks-old kitten had crawled into the dashboard of an Audi A1, where it hid and kept the fire brigade on tenterhooks for hours. “I found the animal at around midday in the car park of a delicatessen,” explained teacher Nadia Trombin. “I decided then and there to take the kitten to an animal home.” But the tiny cat had other ideas.
A few moments after Trombin had put the cat onto her passenger seat, it climbed through the glove compartment into the inside of the dashboard covering. Desperate, Trombin approached the next car workshop but the mechanics could not find the animal. Believing the cat could have escaped, Trombin then drove to work. But after she finished work, her tiny passenger made itself heard on the way home with sounds coming from below the steering wheel.
The teacher immediately informed the fire brigade, at around 9.15pm. The officer in charge, Albert Lehmann, said: “The officers on duty disassembled the car bit by bit and removed the trim and the electronics.” However, the cat hid itself ever deeper in the bowels of the car and could not be lured from the car for three hours. In the meantime, Trombin’s children had arrived and also helped to rescue the animal.
It was only when the firemen used compressed air, which they blew into narrow gaps in the car, that the cat was chased out of its hiding place in a corner of the dashboard. The rescuers immediately grabbed the animal and put it in a cardboard box with air holes.
But when the visibly tired firemen said they wanted to take the kitten to an animal home, Trombin and her children kindly intervened. “The cat has gone through so much,” said the family. “For this reason we are taking her and will keep her.”
Original text: sdj. Translated by Kate Carey.
