On camera: Pune fire brigade rescues a cat from 30-ft-tall cellphone tower

Science-fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein once said "how we behave toward cats determines our status in Heaven" and that's what Pune fire brigade team has shown!

The Pune fire brigade rescued a cat stuck on top of a 30-foot-tall cellphone tower in the Shukrawar Peth area on Wednesday morning.

The fire brigade control room received a call about the cat stuck on the tower on the terrace of a building, Sundar Corner.

The team, along with animal rescue volunteers, reached the spot and firefighter Chandrakant Ananddas climbed up the tower. After a couple of failed attempts with rope and basket, he finally got hold of the scared cat and brought it down.

In the last week of January, a team of Pune firefighters had rescued 10 Persian cats stuck in a building that caught fire in the Ghorpade Peth area of Pune.