PHOTO: Cats rule the internet. Images of cats mostly make us laugh or smile. This image will make you cry, in a good way.
Early Wednesday afternoon, volunteer firefighters from the Chesterfield, Oakdale and Mohegan fire companies, along with Montville career firefighters, responded to a house fire on Glendale Road. They made quick work of the fire inside the home, extinguishing it with a water can.
As firefighters were at work, Chesterfield firefighter/EMT Amie Barnes saw that a "feline member of the family" was suffering from smoke inhalation and needed oxygen.
So Barnes did what she was trained to do, albeit not usually on a cat. When asked if this was a first, Barnes laughed: "Yes!"
"I've given oxygen to patients," Barnes told Patch, "but never to an animal."