It seems that no matter the age, no matter how many times they have been warned by hoomans and other cats, cats will always find a way to get stuck up in a tree and in the most inconvenient of perches. Making it impossible for mere mortals to get up there and save them. No, these kinds of moments are for true heroes and sheroes to deal with. And in the case of this story's stuck cat it was a whole firecrew of heroes who turned up to save the day.

Our story begins with a cat named Simba. For one reason or another Simba found himself atop a rather tall tree with no clear way of coming down. More often than not, cats who are on the run from something will make a move like this. But in their panic they will not check to see that the tree they are scaling has a reasonable perch from which they can jump down from later. And so from time to time find themselves committed to climbing the trunk of a tree that has no perch for at least 40 ft. A safe place to hide from a predator but not so safe in terms of coming back down. And so the cat ends up stuck.

At this point the cat's pawrent got a local cat rescue involved, hoping for a gentle hand and a low stress way for the feline to be returned to the ground. But as it would turn out the cat was catatonic and unable to move or feel safe enough to collaborate with the rescue's efforts. Leaving them with only one port of call, the local Fire Department.