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A couple airlifted from their cabin Sunday during wildfire evacuations near Silver City, New Mexico were reunited with their cat Tuesday after firefighters retrieved the cat from their home. The couple spent two days not knowing whether 6 year old Siamese kitty Rupert had survived.
Benjamin Bevel and his wife were evacuated from the Signal Fire burning in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, along with their dogs. In the hurried evacuation, Rupert was somehow left behind in a cage or crate inside the family’s cabin.
Fortunately, the cabin and Rupert were spared, though the fire came near enough to leave Rupert dirty and smelling like smoke. A team of firefighters visited the cabin on Tuesday to pick up Rupert, and brought him to Silver City, where the Bevels are staying with relatives until they get the all-clear and can return home.
“He was whining really bad and howling up a storm but as soon as he heard me he settled right down so we brought him [to the relatives’] home,” Benjamin Bevel told a Channel 4 news crew.
See more on the story in the Channel 4 News report below.
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How the hell they left the poor cat behind ! Not the dogs of coursev