The Grand Canyon National Park Service and local firefighters sprung into action Friday when they spotted a cat stuck on a tree branch — in a rather odd position.
Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has previously appeared in Billboard, Pigeons & Planes and Complex.A cat found himself in a purr-carious position at Grand Canyon National Park over the weekend.
"Tree-climbing for the purr-fect panorama," the Grand Canyon NPS wrote, before asking for the public's help to identify the cat's owners.to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Well, after being rescued around 1 p.m. near the park's Mather Campground on the South Rim, the cat was eventually reunited with his family as of 7 p.m. local time Friday night.
Another image shared by the agency showed the kitty being rescued by a firefighter, who propped up a latter and climbed to the branch, as another first responder held it up against the pine.The latest cat rescue comes the same week another feline in New York City was back on the ground after being stuck in a tree for several days.
While the outlet notes that it's unclear where the cat went after it scurried off post-rescue, tenants had previously heard the cat cry for multiple nights on end. The FDNY was reportedly unsuccessful at rescuing the cat — which residents of the local Dunbar Apartments had named PL Dunbar — on both Monday, June 17 and Tuesday, June 18.
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