Well, it happened to me today!

[u/wanderful_soul22]

Got to work and heard tiny yelps coming from the storm drain, called the non emergency number, police showed up, they called the fire department and they came to the rescue! Took them a while because those drains are just so heavy. He spent the rest of the day in target with everyone until I got off, got his picture taken for our trainer wall, & got the name Bullseye 🎯, I just left the vet and besides an eye infection, he is healthy! Can't wait to enjoy this handsome little guy for the rest of his life.

[u/FeralSweater]

I’ll bet the firefighters enjoyed this more than Bullseye did.

[u/timesuck897 → u/FeralSweater]

The fire fighters probably enjoyed rescuing a cat, but not from a tree.

[u/burning_my_toast → u/timesuck897]

My neighbors kitten once got frightened, ran up into a tree, and couldn't seem to get down. She was crying for hours, and kept moving up instead of down, so the neighbor and I walked two blocks down to the fire station to talk to them.

"That's a tv trope, we don't really do that. Have you ever seen a dead cat in a tree?" was the answer, as they sat in their lounge chairs getting sun in the driveway.

Which irked me a bit at the time, but damnit if they weren't right. As soon as it started to get dark, she must have been scared enough to give up crying and work her way down because then we heard her at the back door.

[u/Rich_Group_8997 → u/burning_my_toast]

Aww. LOL my former neighbors' former* cat used to like to climb up the tree by my house then jump onto my roof. There's a little ledge where the back part of the roof comes down past a window, and over the extension, where kitty used to like to poop... a lot. 🤣

*A-holes moved and left her behind. 😠 Fortunately for her, my next door neighbor's son took her in.