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Firefighters give pet cat emergency treatment after late-night Leeds blaze

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue used four breathing apparatus sets and two hose reels at the Kellet Lane kitchen fire; one woman needed an ambulance for smoke inhalation.

Photo: Lad 2011 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield on this story, from BBN After Hours at 4:54 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Yorkshire Evening Post's, the jokes are ours.

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Photo: Lad 2011 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFirefighters in Leeds gave oxygen to a pet cat after a kitchen fire on Kellet Lane just after four a. m., and the Yorkshire Evening Post says one woman was also treated for smoke inhalation.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe fire service's update has two patients in one sentence. An ambulance for one female, and crews administered oxygen to pet cat.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFour breathing apparatus sets, two hose reels, and a cat still gets her own line. I'm naming her Most Valuable Patient.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSeason stats: one fire, one mask, zero comments to the press. Her entry is now an official record.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTen out of ten, and I'm a little emotional. She went into that kitchen a cat and came out as a line item.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe incident is marked closed, so the cat has a clean record. And no comment.

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