Incident No: 11743
Date: 30-06-2008
Time: 18:11
Details: Woman rescued from tree
Address: Essex Hall Road, Colchester
Attendance: 2 x Colchester (1 x aerial ladder platform)
Firefighters rescued a woman this evening who got stuck up a tree trying to rescue a cat.
A fire service spokesperson said: “The woman in her twenties was trying to retrieve a neighbour’s cat that was up in the tree. The woman decided to climb up the tree to help rescue the cat and got her self stuck at least 20ft up in the tree.”
The woman was led down to safety by a firefighter using a triple extension ladder by 18:28hrs. The cat made it’s own way down.
