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Caring Chester scaffolder rescued by firefighters after getting stuck on roof while rescuing kitten
Aug 30 2012 by David Holmes, Chester Chronicle
Caring Chester scaffolder rescued by firefighters after getting stuck on roof while rescuing kitten
A SCAFFOLDING student was plucked to safety by firefighters after getting stuck on his house roof while rescuing a pet kitten because he is ‘scared of heights’.
Jake Thomas, 20, and girlfriend Amy, 21, of Brook Lane, Newton, spotted their 15-week-old kitten Harper balanced precariously in the guttering after hearing him meowing on Tuesday evening.
Kind-hearted Jake immediately set about trying to get him down.
He told the Chronicle: “I climbed out of our bedroom window. I had to climb up on to the roof and then hung it down and dropped it to my girlfriend.”
But red-faced Jake, who qualifies as a scaffolder next February, explained: “I’m scared of heights that’s why I couldn’t get back down.
“I was wandering around the tops of the roofs trying to find a way back down but I could not find a way to get down. I was trying to get down the way I came up but it was too steep.
“Then the neighbours called the police on me thinking I was trying to rob them and the police came and they got the fire.”
Jake, who had to be rescued in the cage of the hydraulic platform, admitted being ‘a bit’ shaken after the incident and ‘very embarrassed’. Harper was none the worse for the ordeal.
White watch manager Chris Rodaway, of Chester Fire Station, said: “Apparently the cat was looking out of the window at him as he was being rescued as though he was about to make dash back up on the roof again.
“There’s an old firefighters’ saying that you never see the skeleton of a cat on a roof or in a tree.”
He said the fire service’s general policy was for the RSPCA to deal with stuck cats, but if an elderly owner was becoming stressed they would always assist
Aug 30 2012 by David Holmes, Chester Chronicle
Caring Chester scaffolder rescued by firefighters after getting stuck on roof while rescuing kitten
A SCAFFOLDING student was plucked to safety by firefighters after getting stuck on his house roof while rescuing a pet kitten because he is ‘scared of heights’.
Jake Thomas, 20, and girlfriend Amy, 21, of Brook Lane, Newton, spotted their 15-week-old kitten Harper balanced precariously in the guttering after hearing him meowing on Tuesday evening.
Kind-hearted Jake immediately set about trying to get him down.
He told the Chronicle: “I climbed out of our bedroom window. I had to climb up on to the roof and then hung it down and dropped it to my girlfriend.”
But red-faced Jake, who qualifies as a scaffolder next February, explained: “I’m scared of heights that’s why I couldn’t get back down.
“I was wandering around the tops of the roofs trying to find a way back down but I could not find a way to get down. I was trying to get down the way I came up but it was too steep.
“Then the neighbours called the police on me thinking I was trying to rob them and the police came and they got the fire.”
Jake, who had to be rescued in the cage of the hydraulic platform, admitted being ‘a bit’ shaken after the incident and ‘very embarrassed’. Harper was none the worse for the ordeal.
White watch manager Chris Rodaway, of Chester Fire Station, said: “Apparently the cat was looking out of the window at him as he was being rescued as though he was about to make dash back up on the roof again.
“There’s an old firefighters’ saying that you never see the skeleton of a cat on a roof or in a tree.”
He said the fire service’s general policy was for the RSPCA to deal with stuck cats, but if an elderly owner was becoming stressed they would always assist
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