Kitten is Rescued from Burning Home and Revived with Oxygen

jhghjgjhgjh — *Paramedic Kim Saunders and Smokey, the kitten she revived at the scene of a house fire.*

Smokey the kitten appeared to be lifeless when a firefighter brought him out from his burning home in Nowra, NSW Australia last Friday night. Paramedic Kim Saunders brought him back with an oxygen mask.

Paramedic Saunders, of NSW Ambulance, used an oxygen mask meant for a baby on the six week old kitten after a firefighter searching the house heard distress sounds and found him lying under a bed. The kitten lost consciousness and went limp due to smoke inhalation by the time he was brought outside.

“The fire officer gave the kitten some rescue breaths before signalling to us and placing the kitten on the ground. He then ran back into the building,” Paramedic Saunders is quoted saying in The South Coast Register.

“At first, we didn’t know what to do. I thought, ‘I’ll give it some oxygen and see what happens’.

“So we put on a paediatric mask with some oxygen, dried the kitten off and wrapped him up.

“After about 15 minutes he came to and actually started purring.

“At one stage his head popped off the mask but he put it back in so he must have been enjoying it.”

“We took the kitten over to [homeowner Marianne Hense, when she arrived home to find her kitten had been rescued from the fire]. You could still feel it purring through the towel. She gave it a little kiss,” Paramedic Saunders said.

Paramedic Saunders told Ben Fordham in the radio interview we link to below that her paramedic training did not prepare her to treat animals on the job, but she has learned from her sister, who is a trained veterinary nurse.

“I don’t care about anything inside the house, only that my cats were safe” Mrs Hense told the Daily Telegraph.

Listen to a Ben Fordham radio interview with Kim Sanders on 2GB 873 – Sydney Talk Radio, HERE.

trytrtyr — *NSW Ambulance paramedic Kim Saunders with Smoky on Friday, after he was rescued from a house fire in Nowra and resuscitated.*
*Photo NSW AMBULANCE*

.
.

This lucky kitten is resuscitated by #asnsw paramedics after being rescued from a house fire @ Bomaderry by @FRNSW. pic.twitter.com/IHS2pXPb79

— NSW Ambulance (@ASNSW) May 11, 2014

#ASNSW Bomaderry Paramedic Kim Saunders gives the kitten a cuddle following resuscitation with a paed mask and oxygen pic.twitter.com/ivf0L6glZC

— NSW Ambulance (@ASNSW) May 11, 2014

‘Everything’s going to be ok.’ Within 15 minutes the kitten was actually purring and quite enjoyed the @asnsw oxygen. pic.twitter.com/ToDmjKcdPJ

— NSW Ambulance (@ASNSW) May 11, 2014