West Kelowna firefighters rescue kitten from storm sewer

A kitten was rescued from a storm sewer in West Kelowna on Wednesday afternoon.

Carrie Gray said she heard the kitten crying, then traced it to a storm sewer on Walnut Glen Drive.

After spotting the kitten through the iron grate, Gray said the kitten retreated into a pipe. She then went for a walk and, upon her return, the kitten was still crying, which is when she called West Kelowna Fire Rescue.

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The rescue crew arrived around 1:30 p.m., and no one knows how the kitten got into the storm drain, but it was skittish enough to keep retreating into the pipe.

Finally, firefighters managed to coax it into view. They then blocked off the pipe and caught the grey kitten with an animal control pole.

Freed from the storm sewer, the frightened feline was released.