A good news story after fire disaster

There have been so many disastrous fires recently, not just in NC where lives have been lost, but also in CA, that I thought some might like to know of this happy ending.

(Our house in Chapel Hill burned down the end of August, but everyone got out safely. We were fortunate with our pets. We always put our cats out at night and they returned to our burned out house the night and morning after the fire. Our dog came out with us.)


CHAPEL HILL - When Kristin Pietrowicz jumped from the balcony of her blazing Carrboro apartment a little more than a month ago, she clutched her Persian cat, Phoebe.

Then, as she fell, she lost her 7-pound gray companion with the pushed-in face.

With her heels shattered, Pietrowicz, 25, couldn't search the woods behind her destroyed building in the days after the fire. The blaze killed a downstairs neighbor and displaced about 20 residents.

But Lynn Turner, an assistant librarian in the Geological Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill, returned night after night, setting traps and walking the woods with a flashlight until she found Phoebe.


http://www.newsobserver.com/print/friday/city_state/story/757953.html

I'm so happy you got your cat back. Amazing that she made it by herself so long in the woods. A very happy ending.

:hug: