Fluffy critter found in truck’s engine case — then plays ‘peek-a-boo’ with rescuers
Firefighters with the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety in Georgia were testing fire hydrants on Sept. 10 when they received an unusual call.
“The fire department is generally known for running fire and medical emergencies, but this one falls into a different cat-egory altogether,” the department said in a Facebook post.
A family found a stray kitten in the engine compartment of its Toyota truck, and it wasn’t interested in finding a new hiding spot.
The kitten, trapped in the workings of the truck, wouldn’t move out of the confined space, despite coaxing from the firefighters.
Instead, she decided to “play the ultimate game of peek-a-boo with the crew,” the department said in the post.
The kitten needed a little more convincing to come out, so the firefighters grabbed a garden hose and used a quick squirt of water to get the kitten to start to move.
Soon she was free and ran out from the truck into the side yard of the home, the department said.
“The crew and the family didn’t want to let this young kitten run astray and get itself into any more trouble, so with a little help from the family, Engine 84 found and caught the scared kitten,” the department wrote on Facebook.
The firefighters said the family took the kitten to a rescue.
Alpharetta is about 26 miles north of Atlanta.
