Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked the bucket.
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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Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked the bucket.
hawt kitty !
Cats are notoriously curious, but not normally so about fires. How would it have achieved ignition anyhow? By jumping in the middle of the flaming grease? Again sounds very uncatly of the cat.
Used to do fire restoration work. This stuff, minus the cat part, happens all the time.
Grease catches fire, flames up three or four feet. Right thing to do is to put the lid on it, but people generally don’t.
What they do is panic, grab the skillet and try to run with it outside or to the sink. Well of course the flames rush up into their face, they drop the pan and the grease splatters across everything. Could certainly splash a cat, who would then obviously take off.
The other thing they do is throw water on the flames, which results in something like an explosion that throws flaming oil everywhere, some of which could of course get on the kitty.
The cat was intoxicated by the aroma of cooking pork chops. Can made an unexpected lung at a pork chop. That’s when it caught on fire (my theory)
Chicago, cow kicked over a lantern.
the proper term is "Bungalow Torpedo"....
Poor kitties. Poor people.
Bangalore torpedo
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Jun 26, 2002 - Glad you concur - lest I turn my chicken upon your evil feline to peck peck peck and your precious tabby runs like a bungalow torpedo back to ...
I know my cats go crazy whenever there is any kind of pork being cooked. I guess cats are not going to turn Muslim on us. :)
That was a Sampson trick.
Strangely enough the Muzzies like cats as pets and have nothing against them (in their psycho way) the way they despise dogs
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Weird. Cats love pork. Maybe they think dogs eat cats? My dog is afraid of the cats. LOL As it should be.
Dogs are afraid of cats being in a good position to swat them with their claws. The claws spook the dog
Plus cats know how to do Jedi mind control tricks on the dogs
The hissing and growling doesn’t hurt either. My dog just wants to play, but the cats are not having it.
Sounds like a pigpen.
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