Fire Department Rescues Cat From Tree

Cliché or not, the scenario was very real: forty feet separated a cat from the ground below.

Mr. Chin, the animal in question, had perched himself among the higher branches of a tree outside 14 Brookside Drive on Wednesday. Out of concern, his owner contacted firefighters asking for their assistance in getting him down.

The Darien Fire Department soon came to the rescue, arriving on the scene around 5:00 p.m. with a crucial piece of equipment: a ladder truck.

Firefighter Shane Smith said he and two other members of the department maneuvered into the tree with the bucket of the truck, from which they were able to grab Mr. Chin and bring him down.

Scroll through the photos at right for a view of the rescue.