Purr-fect ending as cat is save from Wisbech flat fire

Police and fire worked together to help revive a cat rescued from a flat fire in Wisbech.

Two fire crews, one from Wisbech and the other from Thorney, were called to the fire at Weston Miller Drive, last Sunday (17) .

They arrived at around 4.23am to find a balcony of a first floor flat well alight and smoke issuing from the roof space.

Wearing breathing apparatus, firefighters used a jet and two hose reels to extinguish the fire before returning to their stations by 10.30am.

A fire service spokesman said: "One cat was rescued from the flat by firefighters and given oxygen therapy by the fire crew with the help of Fenland Policing officers."

The incident was later reinspected The cause of the fire was accidental.

Posting on their Facebook Page Fenland police said: " On Sunday our officers worked together with partners in Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service when they were called to a flat fire in Weston Miller Drive, Wisbech.

."A cat was rescued from the flat and given life-saving oxygen therapy by officers and firefighters."