Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LAGUNA WOODS, Calif., April 23 (UPI) -- Authorities in California said firefighters performed artificial respiration on a cat rescued from a blaze until it began to breathe on its own. Capt. Marc Stone of the Orange County Fire Authority said about 20 firefighters responded to the fire in Laguna Woods just after 3 p.m. Wednesday and found only the cat inside the house, the Orange County (Calif.) Register reported Thursday. Advertisement "The cat wasn't doing so well," Stone said. Stone said firefighters performed artificial respiration on the feline and then returned the animal to its owner, who had fled the house through a back door before firefighters arrived.
