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Firefighters Battle Cantonment House Fire; Save Family Cats
January 4, 2014
Fire heavily damaged a Cantonment home Friday afternoon as first responders worked to save family pets overcome by smoke.
Firefighters battled the house fire on Bonanza Drive, near Pine Forest Road north of Nine Mile Road. Firefighters also dealt with a lack of hydrants in the immediate area, shuttling water in tanker trucks from fire hydrants from some distance away in the neighborhood.
The residents were able to escape without injury, but family pets were still inside the home when first responders arrived.
At least two cats were removed from the home. Escambia County EMS personnel were seen providing them oxygen and working with the felines for some 10-15 minutes to resuscitate them. The two cats were then returned to their owners.
There were no human injuries reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Pictured top: Fire ravaged a Cantonment home Friday afternoon. Submitted photo for NorthEscambia.com. Pictured inset and below: EMS personnel resuscitate two cats found inside the home. NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Smith, click to enlarge.
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15 Responses to “Firefighters Battle Cantonment House Fire; Save Family Cats”
Hurray for Public Safety and thank goodness for tanker trucks. Thanks for saving ALL the family members.
We should feel bad for the family we have the cats in good hands they are being cared for. Pray for the family
God bless
John 3:16
How about raise the sales tax to 8%. Take the 1/2 % and use it to up grade all water lines in Escambia county. Then put in fire hydrants were needed. The ins. you save will more than pay that 1/2 cent you pay.
It’s your home, your business or your church.
The firemen needs this today.
Charlie
In my haste of being a proud mom I neglected to say that I am very proud of all the people involved in this call. Without them working as a team on every call they get things would not work out as well. I am thankful for all of you who put your lives on the line each and everyday for family, friends and strangers no matter what the situation occurs you are there to serve the community. Thanks to all and may God bless you and keep you safe.
I am sorry for the loss of their home, but it was great to see the photo of the cats being cared for.
Prayers for the family. I am so proud of the Firefighters! Thankyou.
So thankful the residents were able to get out safely and their pets were saved by the wonderful EMS at work. Especially proud of Jody, son of our daughter’s God parent’s.
They may be just family pets to those of us reading this story, but to the owners of these pets, they are most likely their family, so I can just imagine how happy they were to know they didn’t loose their family in that fire too.
Thanks to all the Heros that responded to that fire way to go guys great job.
Hey everyone that young Ems man is from North Escamia County (Walnut Hill) known as Jody. Proud of what you do not only helping to save lives but also pets!! Thanks for your dedication. That’s my awesome son
The pets are safe and part of the home was saved. As stated there are a lot things that could be done with the four cent gas tax to improve Escambia county all over. We see first that the water lines in this area are not large enough to furnish water probably on a daily basis to the homes let alone to give fire fighters enough to put out house fires. Sorry to say that after working with public funds myself for years–there seems at times there is just not enough to go around. There are a lot of salaries and large one (just saying) to pay and Tax increases barely keep up with increases in pay. As an individual I doubt that the four cents in gas tax that I will pay this year in Escambia county will even be enough to buy one School Bus tire and the rest if us maybe a tire and a half. What do we do but just pay up. With less and less big industries in the U,S, to bring in new money to sell to other countries (like more grain and Coal etc.) we have more and more people working on Public money and doing People services. Sort of like selling to each other just to stay in business. Just can’t say too much about people on public funds as If you look around they are your neighbors (School teachers, Contractors, Hospitals and Doctors-and nurses – in part and all the other Federal, County and City employees all over etc. We all pay taxes. On election day we elect the people (at the time) we think are going to do us the best job by using their expertise in business and management and just good old common sense to look out for the operation of government. Sometimes (a lot of time) we get fooled.
I’m off my stump now……..
Thank you for saving their pets and at least part of their home! And yes, I agree, that 4 cent gas tax should go to fixing things like fire hydrants, and providing paid firefighters for the north end, and fixing the things that are an eyesore and a hazard in Escambia County!
You see folks there is still hope for Man kind.
The water lines in that area are not large enough to supply water to fire hydrants the lines need to be 6″ or larger and there not.
Maybe our county commissioners should take the 4 cent gas tax from ECAT and spend it on upgrading the county’s infrastructure!!! Guess we know what their priorities are..
Prayers for family and everyone working the scene.