A “sarcastic” firefighter got a verbal reprimand recently for his response to a caller who asked firefighters to rescue a cat from a tree, according to the fire chief.
A young girl posted on social media on behalf of her mother that the firefighter who took the call was “extremely rude” and that he suggested the cat would eventually get out of the tree on its own: He said he had never seen a cat skeleton in a tree before, and that cats have nine lives.
The fire chief was not pleased with the firefighter’s response.
Asked if that was what the firefighter said, Fire Chief Dean Kochanowski said, “That’s true.”
Chief Kochanowski declined to reveal the firefighter’s identity.
The chief said the verbal reprimand was noted in the employee’s file. “I still write it down,” the chief said.