Posted on 01/13/2015 9:50:38 AM PST by dennisw
Cat on fire starts Bronx apartment blaze, leaving two people critical and five felines believed dead Angel Alcazar was cooking pork chops inside his apartment on Gouverneur Ave. in Riverdale on Friday when a grease fire broke out, neighbors said. One of his cats caught fire and then ran around the home, setting everything it touched ablaze. Eleven residents were hospitalized and about a dozen were displaced.
Angel Alcazar -- the owner of six cats -- was cooking pork chops inside his apartment on Gouverneur Ave. in Riverdale at about 5 p.m. when a grease fire broke out, neighbors said.
As Alcazar tried to put out the blaze, at least one of his felines got too close and caught fire, they said. The torched tabby then ran around the home, setting everything it touched on fire.
"I looked outside my window ... I saw nothing but flames," said resident Theodore Oakes.
The fire quickly began consuming both the third and fourth floors of the building, which has 67 apartments, officials said.
Disabled tenant Suzanne Guthridge, 52, was sitting in her home down the hall when she smelled the smoke -- and the cry of a kitty.
"I opened the door for the cat," Guthridge said. "He came through and I shut it because the smoke was overwhelming. It was really scary.
"That whole area was full of smoke," she said. "It was unbelievable. You could feel the heat."
Five of the cats, including the one that was burned, are believed to have died.
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Something fishy about this story of a cat on fire
I’s day...
Bored youts. Remember a few months ago the video that went viral showing a NYC “yout” luring a cat with a treat and proceeding to field goal kick the cat? Same people here, I’d bet.
Didn’t the Chicago fire start from a critter aflame? Or maybe it was the burning of London Bridge?
*I’d say.
Sheesh. I can’t get anything right today.
Not really. My idiot that had an encounter with a candle was named Caroline. We put her out after chasing her through the house. She only had some singed fur. Both she, and we, were lucky.
Mrs. O’leary’s cow kicked the lantern over that started the Great Chicago Fire, or so the story goes...............
Curiosity killed the cat...
Our cat walked too near a lit candle on a dining table and caught her tail on fire. Luckily we saw it happen as she ran under a bed. I put the tail fire out by grabbing her tail with my hand and running my hand down it. That sucker sure burned fast. I can’t imagine a grease covered flaming cat running through the house.
Cats do not ordinarily catch on fire. Unless maybe they’re on a hot tin roof?
/mark
How much’ya’wanna’bet he lived in a “no pets allowed” building
That’s what it gets for smoking in the litter box...
Yes. Cats tend not to go near fire.
Cat on a hot tin roof? Could it have caught fire?
“Didn’t the Chicago fire start from a critter aflame?”
The legend was that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over an oil lamp and set the barn on fire.
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