Moments later, Squad 65 was rushing off to a much different rescue.
A kitten was stranded deep in the tube of an abandoned bank drive-through. The female calico was smaller than a hot-dog bun and probably just 1 day old.
Earlier that morning, the doctor's office that occupies the old bank was haunted by loud crying coming from the building's innards.
A search tracked the mournful wailing to tubes leading out to the old drive-through lanes.
Firefighters first tried to reach into the tube, but the newborn kitten was beyond their reach. The tube, which contained wires to the document transport machine, was 4 inches wide, 22 feet long and buried beneath 3 feet of concrete.
Firefighter Scott Sanford engineered a sling to pull the kitten into the building. It caught the kitten and delivered her to waiting rescuers in the doctor's office. She hadn't even opened her eyes yet.
The firefighters figure the mother cat crawled through a hole in the drive-through teller transport machine. She made a nest and gave birth to her litter there. The kitten must have fallen into the tube.
Rescuers named the kitten Teller
