Cat that jumped from 5th-floor balcony to escape blaze adopted by Edmonton fire dispatcher

After spending a mates of months successful foster care, a location feline that escaped a downtown Edmonton high-rise occurrence earlier this year by leaping from a fifth-storey pavilion has recovered his everlastingly home. And nan take communicative really has travel afloat circle.

On April 25, a occurrence collapsed retired at nan Harwood Plaza flat building connected Jasper Avenue adjacent 110th Street. Flames and achromatic fume were shooting from a fifth-floor unit, arsenic firefighters successful a ladder motortruck rescued a man from nan burning balcony.

While this was going on, video captured astatine nan segment showed a feline jumping from nan pavilion to flight nan blaze.

The feline was recovered nan adjacent day, mostly unscathed from superior injury.

“He had musculus soreness, truthful he couldn’t beryllium decently for a small bit. He was very acrophobic of floors, truthful you’d person to put carpet aliases he would jump from sofa to couch. We’re not 100 per cent judge why he was frightened of nan floors — he wasn’t earlier — truthful perchance thing to do pinch nan fire,” said Melissa Polnik, president and laminitis of Through Your Pets Eyes Animal Rescue.

“He mislaid his whiskers and he had immoderate bits of hairsbreadth missing.”

Polnik said nan tabby feline — aptly named Jasper — primitively came into nan rescue’s attraction past November erstwhile he was 4 months old, and was adopted retired to nan man who lived successful nan Jasper Ave apartment. After nan fire, Polnik said Jasper’s proprietor wasn’t capable to return him back, truthful nan animal came backmost into her care.

“He was successful 2 really awesome foster homes. They made it easy for him. They put mats down, rugs, and fto him jump from spot to place. They fed him up successful nan feline character truthful he didn’t person to interest astir going down to nan level and past he slow sewage utilized to nan level again,” Polnik explained.

Once he was fresh to beryllium adopted out, nan animal rescue began looking for a location for Jasper and conscionable truthful happened to get nan cleanable applicant.

“We had an exertion from a woman who was really nan dispatcher that dispatched nan occurrence connected nan time of nan occurrence downtown and that was nan exertion we went with,” Polnik said.

“She met each nan criteria we needed and she ended up adopting him and kept his name.”

On Tuesday, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services shared connected societal media that nan feline was adopted by 1 of its dispatchers.

Polnik said Jasper is doing really good successful his caller location pinch his caller owner, and he’s backmost stepping connected nan level without issue.

“It’s very exciting. Cats person 9 lives and he’s utilized up astir apt 2 now. So I’m really happy that he recovered a bully location and it was really bully that it benignant of each worked backmost into personification who initially rescued him,” Polnik said.

“He’s doing really great. We’ve had nary issues pinch nan adopter. She’s had nary concerns. There’s immoderate pictures of him enjoying his caller life.”

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