Titusville firefighters rescue cat stuck in Mercedes engine compartment

Wearing gloves to ward off teeth and claws, Titusville firefighters gingerly extricated a cat from the engine compartment of a Mercedes-Benz on Friday morning.

The feline rescue happened at a home on Las Palmas Drive, in a neighborhood north of La Cita Country Club.

The gray cat, Suba Mae, escaped injury, Titusville Fire Battalion Chief Greg Sutton said.

"The owner states that she believes the cat got out an open door last night," Sutton said.

"The cat's not an outdoor cat. And when she went out looking, she heard the cat meowing under the car," he said.

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After being alerted by Suba Mae's meows, his owner called an emergency dispatcher for help.

"As we tried to get the cat from underneath (the vehicle), it moved further and became kind of stuck. That's when we had to open the hood and get in that way to get the cat out," Sutton said."It's something different every day. Most people think cats are getting stuck in trees — and I think we've had as many in cars as we've had in the trees," he said.

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