Ambulance Crew Rescues Tiny, Furry Patient in Parking Garage

What does it take to rescue a kitten?

One pair of small hands, a splint from a Prince George’s County Fire Department ambulance, a caring bystander and a bit of luck.

The department recently shared a good news story on its blog of two ambulance crew members who saved a wayward kitten trapped in a parking garage.

Ambulance 899 crew members Janet DeMeritt and Rajah Rose were finishing up paperwork after taking a patient to Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham when they overhead staffers talking about a kitten that was stuck in the parking garage. The ambulance crew went to the parking garage to see if they could help.

They found a nurse who had tracked the kitten’s cry for help, but was unable to reach the trapped kitty. The crew of DeMeritt and Rose could barely see the kitten in a small space between a concrete support beam and the concrete wall. The kitten was only being supported by a piece of metal rebar that prevented it from falling several feet to the concrete below.

The blog says the ambulance crew used DeMeritt’s petite hands to reach into the small opening while Rose slid a small rigid arm splint underneath the kitten. After some maneuvering and dealing with a scared kitten the pair was able to lift the kitten to safety.

A member of the hospital staff took the kitten home.

»Photos from PGCFD blog; one photo shows the face of a kitten wedged in a space in a parking garage, the other shows ambulance crew members Jan DeMeritt and Rajah Rose witha hospital staffer who will care for the rescued kitten.