Forget the image of firefighters saving a cat in a tree.
Atlantic City’s firefighters went searching drain pipes to root out a stuck cat Thursday night.
Spoiler alert: the kitty is safe.
Fire Chief Scott Evans said he received a call from the mayor’s chief of staff saying she read a Facebook post about a cat being trapped near the Coach store.
"I know, I'm going to get you some help," Amanda Cavanaugh says as the cat meows from inside the pipe in the video she posted to Facebook. "I know, it's OK."
"I don’t know if anyone can or if anyone knows anyone that can help. But I’ve called animal control and the police non-emergency line and both said they would send someone and still haven’t an hour later," she wrote.
The Egg Harbor Township woman even wrapped up her arm to try to get the cat out, but it was too deep.
"I don’t know what else there is to do but I feel like I can’t just leave it without at least seeing if someone else in the world might be able to do something," she wrote.
Someone could.
Evans sent firefighters to the area, but the couldn't hear the cat.
So Evans — who was off duty — headed to The Walk. When he shined his flashlight into the drain pipe, he hear the cat and called for Rescue 1 to come back, he told BreakingAC.
They began to open storm drains and manholes to determine how to get to the cat.
“I determined that the cat was trapped in a drain pipe underneath the street,” Evans said.
The main issue was to get the cat to the manhole before it flowed into the storm drain.
Using a watering can, they were able to chase the cat to the end of the pipe where Firefighter Mike Giercyk quickly grabbed it, Evans said.
The cat was shaken but unharmed. The Pleasantville SPCA picked up the cat.
