Raynham firefighters reunite with kitten rescued from storm drain

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The five-week-old kitten is aptly named “Storm.”

Raynham firefighters reunited with a five-week-old kitten they rescued from storm drain over the weekend. Raynham Hearth Division/Courtesy

A 5-week-old tuxedo kitten was reunited Tuesday with the Raynham firefighters who spared one in all his 9 lives.

The saga started simply after midnight on Sunday, when first responders acquired a name a couple of kitten caught inside a storm drain on Princess Lane. 

Hearth Chief Bryan LaCivita and Police Chief James Donovan stated in a press launch that officers might hear the kitten making “small noises” inside, however determined to attend till daylight to aim a rescue. They lowered down a pet crate, meals, and water to maintain the kitten secure in a single day. 

First responders returned at about 7:30 a.m. and will hear the kitten as soon as extra, so firefighter Dom Kuran climbed into the eight-foot-deep drain.

“Crawled down. Scared him out … from that granite with one hand and grabbed him with the opposite, and simply handed him up again as much as the highest,” Kuran informed WCVB of the daring rescue.

He was in a position to maintain and feed the black-and-white cat — now named “Storm” — throughout a go to on the Raynham Hearth Division Tuesday. The male kitten is at the moment staying with Raynham Animal Management Officer Linda Brackett and already has a variety of adopters, in accordance with the press launch. 

Watch WCVB’s video of the reunion under:


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