<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Mac and Cheese may have used up almost all of their nine lives after somehow surviving a 10-alarm fire - that burned for 20 hours, damaging 16 buildings and leaving 125 homeless - without a scratch. Come watch their tearful reunion on Caturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>Fox-25 News</i> (Boston) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fox25boston.com/news/firefighter-rescues-cats-returns-them-to-owner-in-emotional-video/474125060?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">http://www.fox25boston.com/news/firefighter-rescues-cats-returns-them-to-owner-in-emotional-video/474125060?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><div><h1 class="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 2.3em; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firefighter rescues cats, returns them to owner in emotional video</h1></div><div><br></div><div>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Cambridge man recorded the emotional moment a firefighter returned two cats to their tearful owner after a massive fire last weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>The cats, named Mac and Cheese, somehow survived the fire that damaged 16 buildings and displaced nearly 125 people.</div><div><br></div><div>Cambridge Fire Lt. Brian Casey said he didn’t think there was any way he would find those cats alive.</div><div><br></div><div>Casey was one of the dozens of firefighters on the scene looking for hot spots when he was approached by Christina Jeffrey asking about her cats.</div><div><br></div><div>“I said, ‘I’m not how safe your house is. I’m not sure we can get inside but, we’ll take a look and see what we see,’” he recalled.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeffery lived in the building right across the street from where the fire began. Her home was damaged, but Casey was able to get inside.</div><div><br></div><div>“While I was looking around the bed, under the bed, under the covers to see if the cats were hiding anywhere, I heard them behind me in the closet. I turned around and they were both kind of huddled in the closet,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mac and Cheese had survived all the heat and smoke.</div><div><br></div><div>“I didn’t expect really much in the way of finding them alive in the fire. The fire burned for 18 or 20 hours, I was actually quite surprised,” Casey said.</div><div><br></div><div>Casey scooped the cats up, one by one, and returned them to Jeffrey in a reunion serendipitously captured on camera by neighbor Justin Khoo.</div><div><br></div><div>“When I brought the cats out, she broke down, obviously tears of joy in the street,” Casey said. “They were very excited. Tears of joy.”</div><div><br></div><div>It’s a beautiful moment and Casey says it was the least he could do for a family that had lost almost everything.</div><div><br></div><div>"I'm forever grateful for the fire department and other emergency and disaster relief teams who pulled us out of that horror largely unharmed," Jeffery said. "I hope the video brings a moment of happiness in this very hard time."</div><div><br></div></div><div>Mac and Cheese are doing well after the fire.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Video</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://youtu.be/AUSzpTBOooY">https://youtu.be/AUSzpTBOooY</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>