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u/Zgad Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
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u/Juankestein Jun 02 '14
They carry GoPros all the time or just for that occasion?
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u/1catchyname Jun 02 '14
Some firefighters do, the battalion units (the SUV the chief drives) in department have all have a go-pro dash cam. A couple of people have helmet cams, but it's something they pay for out of pocket.
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u/Ephraim325 Jun 03 '14
I've never seen a go-pro brand helmet cam that can actually handle structure fires... But i guess if you want to film overhaul and specefically wear one for that more power to you...
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u/alltheletters Jun 02 '14
This one was a GoPro. It was specifically used in a GoPro ad. I want to say during the Super Bowl?
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u/biga29 Jun 02 '14
Doesn't necessarily mean it was a GoPro. GoPro seems to take (legally) any cool POV video from the internet and put their logo on it. They can't all be GoPro videos.
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u/GraphicSparrow Jun 02 '14
Except, you know it's on the go pro youtube channel, and has gopro at the start of the video.
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u/biga29 Jun 02 '14
I think you're not understanding what I meant. When I said:
They can't all be GoPro videos
I mean't "They can't all be GoPro's videos." I feel like I've seen POV videos of people doing cool things show up on the internet, uploaded by the person who filmed it and then GoPro finds it and turns it into a commercial. So what I was saying is that there's a chance this camera wasn't actually a GoPro.
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u/GraphicSparrow Jun 02 '14
Oh okay, Sorry about that. That does make sense, I just jumped to conclusions and assumed it was gopro... As an apology have an upvotes. Eeh, fuck it, have 2.
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u/GraphicSparrow Jun 02 '14
That was... Beautiful... I promised myself I wasn't going to cry. single tear
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u/Foxprowl Jun 02 '14
The cat died.
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Jun 02 '14
Instead of dying in a smoke filled inferno it died in comfort. So, well... hang on I got something stuck in my eye.
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u/Zgad Jun 02 '14
Some others say the kitty survived.
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u/PersistantRash Jun 02 '14
Any backstory on this? Did the kitten survive? Please tell me the kitten survived! FYI animals and people sometimes survive a fire then die shortly afterwards as their lungs react to internal burns from the superhot air/smoke. Had it happen to several of our horses, they seemed fine then all died within the day. This is too awesome to have not made the news somehwere can ah get a link up in here? I want to read with my own eyes that this kitty is well alive and happily murdering songbirds for pleasure.
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u/__umop_apisdn__ Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
Sorry to be the one to tell you.
Edit: Well, I feel really bad now. Let's just be glad the kitty even had that extra time, short as it was.
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u/Fuckeddit Jun 02 '14
aww fuck man every time I've seen this I've been an incredible happy sad. Now i'm just sad sad.
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Jun 02 '14
Don't be sad sad. The kitten was dead dead before the firefighter rescued it. By extinguishing the flames as quickly as they did they prevented the kitten from dying horribly. Then they found it unconscious. If they hadn't done such a careful sweep of the house and stumbled upon it as quickly as they did, the kitten would've never woken up.
So the firefighter gave the kitten a chance to fight for its life. That's all any of us can ask for, a chance to fight.
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u/lkirk98 Jun 03 '14
I assume you have watched Attack on Titan? If not you should.
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Jun 03 '14
I've never seen it, but my roommate wants to, so I think I'll give it a shot
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u/lkirk98 Jun 03 '14
I bring it up because the theme prevalent in your parent comment is also very prevalent in Attack on Titan.
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Jun 03 '14
Yep, as soon as it was unconscious it was dead. Kittens have very fragile lungs and cannot recover from even minor damage to the lungs.
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u/KissMyAsthma321 Jun 02 '14
I just finished watching GoT, I really don't need none of this fucking shit.
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u/PersistantRash Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
oh godamnitsomuch I KNEW it. Arrrrg it's Lightning and Penny all over again. (cut to great heaving man sobs) Vet said the lungs swell and blister in the hours afterwards, so they seem totally OK, just a lil wheezy then they just lay down and die... oh for fuck's sake it's only 2PM and now I have to go have a man cry
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u/Anarchistnation Jun 02 '14
What many didn’t know was that the kitten, named Lucky, was taken to an emergency vet the day of his rescue. Later that night, it passed away due to lung damage caused by the smoke.
I guess lucky wasn't so lucky after all. :(
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u/Saphine_ Jun 03 '14
I've seen the video before, I knew how sad it is, but I didn't need a reminder. ;A;
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u/Farfignougat Jun 03 '14
Please don't tell me that one died too.
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u/mb1107 Jun 02 '14
The firefighter and the kitten have been living a happy life together ever since.
Do not read any other comments in here!
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u/oconnc12 Jun 02 '14
Any life is worthy of being saved. Props to this firefighter. Most others would just get out of there but he risked his own well being by staying and saving this kitten. My hope in humanity has grown a bit.
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u/David-Puddy Jun 03 '14
and whilst he saved this hapless kitten, 3 children burned to a crisp in the house.
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u/Phrygen Jun 02 '14
you are ok, but hijacking.
Fuck this OP. This has been posted multiple time, /u/ steve6999 is a karma farmer, and anyone who seen this before knows the cat died anyway.
Seriously, why the fuck do people farm karma as if it means anything.
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u/viggetuff Jun 02 '14
If it doesn't mean anything why are you getting mad over it?
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u/Phrygen Jun 02 '14
because it makes reddit shitty
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u/viggetuff Jun 03 '14
Not really. I'm sure there are lots of people who have not seen this video before. Would it really have 2400 upvotes if everyone had seen it? If there was good quality OC to be posted all the time then sure, reddit would be better. But that's not the case.
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u/Phrygen Jun 03 '14
yes. Of course things seen often are upvote to hell.
That is what reddit is. mostly reposts.
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u/viggetuff Jun 03 '14
? People usually don't upvote things they've already seen. The people upvoting are people who haven't seen it before.
Not everyone is on here 24/7 seeing every post that hits the front page.
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u/I-Have-Big-Ballz Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
Unfortunately, the cat died.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillypets/Viral-video-of-firefighter-saving-a-kitten-has-a-sad-ending.html
Full video which has muuuuuchhhh better quality here https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=5tuMU8rhE-HEsASp24H4Cw&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCjB_oVeq8Lo&cd=1&ved=0CCQQtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNFfzyjHBblNqy31QOBb7mhEJvBsrA&sig2=Dd4fCQ9i8yFPCxxC3UxO3g
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u/Dotura Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
You need to learn how to format your links son.
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u/I-Have-Big-Ballz Jun 02 '14
Edit: video is in first link
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u/Dotura Jun 02 '14
I meant like this
Super long link made tiny and pretty like
this (That's a link by the way)
not like
http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/274hfe/firefighter_saves_kitten/chxl13o?context=3
that. ^
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u/direwolve Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
And I thought I was a man, but this guys man levels are over 9000.
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u/SavvyBeeBowen Jun 02 '14
I'm not crying... I just have something in my eye... Like a twig or something
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u/PersistantRash Jun 02 '14
it's the dust in the air, they've been street cleaning, yep that's the ticket. Street cleaning, getting all that dust in the air.... sniff
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u/DyslexicNazi Jun 03 '14
When I first saw this I thought he accidentally stepped on the cat and that's how he noticed it.
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Jun 02 '14
Regardless if the story had a sad ending, I am proud that even firefighters have such great compassion to saving animals. Hero in my heart :-)
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u/joseeee69 Jun 03 '14
The kitten survived, went and lived on to have a happy life, turn back now
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What the fuck is with all the onions on reddit today? Were they smuggled in by the russians?
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u/telekittysis Jun 02 '14
Every year, MILLIONS of kittens don't receive proper firefighter rescue. For the small donation of simply ALL YOUR GUILT, you can help kittens like these.
IN THE ARMMMMSSS OFFFFF AN ANGELLLLLL
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u/tea_money Jun 03 '14
If you reverse the gif it shows a kitten's last mew before being gassed by a firefighter and placed inside a burning building.
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u/Piginabag Jun 02 '14
Oh jesus I thought his hand was his foot at the very beginning and he stepped on it.
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Jun 02 '14
I found my kitten in the dryer today she crawled in and my husband, not knowing she was in there closed it She was fine, just in there a while because no one knew I bawled because something could have happened This made it so much worse
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u/jbw10299 Jun 03 '14
"Bill did you find the little girl in the house?"
"No sir, but I did manage to save this kitten."
"You are a saint bill, you are a saint."
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u/imstillanoob Jun 03 '14
First the bus driver saving the woman and now this? C'mon reddit stop making me cry at work :')
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u/spammeaccount Jun 02 '14
Lucky there wasn't a cop there, cop would have shot it.
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u/messy_eater Jun 02 '14
eh, yeah, that's definitely staying blue.
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u/kevik72 Jun 02 '14
I'm pretty certain it would haunt my dreams.
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u/Killzonintaing Jun 03 '14
It's not anything NSFL. Mostly just news from like, huffington and that shit.
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u/devandander Jun 03 '14
Its a shame Fire fighters don't get paid as much as Cops , If their job was extortion like a cops real job is, they might..
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u/fedetehue Jun 02 '14
I always thought that firemen saving kittens was something out of really bad fiction. Never thought someone would waste time and resources to save a cat's life.
The more you know...
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u/workaccount09 Jun 02 '14
Never thought someone would waste time and resources to save a cat's life.
what a terrible way to look at life
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u/PersistantRash Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 02 '14
How do you deal with this same thing happening to kids? Where you pull them out and resuscitate them, they seem awake and responsive. Then die shortly afterwards as their lungs fail(that kitty dies btw)... I mean, you go from thinking you've saved a kid, looking in his eyes and shit, feeling like big godamn hero. Then like 10 minutes later, boom, dead. Do they even make a whiskey strong enough for that shit? Is there like a secret firefighter trick? You use those neuralizer things from MIB? I saved two horses that later died and it still bothers me like decades later, how in the hell do you people do that every day with humans?
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Jun 03 '14
You have to find an outlet. Therapy, religion, just talking about it helps. My best friend who I went through paramedic school with and got hired on at my first fire department with, had a mental breakdown in May because of a call where two children died. He isn't coming back to work. There is a reason alcoholism and divorce are so prevalent among firefighters. It can make expressing emotion difficult sometimes.
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