i thought for sure, you know, she s dead. but kim survives. she did. no broken bones. no internal bleeding. like nothing ever happened to her. in fact, she s raring to go. i couldn t believe it. i really don t believe it. hit the ground and started running. went straight home. that s all she wanted to do was go home. i felt so happy inside, like it was like going to heaven. after her adventure, kim still looks for trouble. she isn t a good girl. a little bit fat now. coming up oh, geez. a hot air balloon on a collision course. it s a disaster happening in front of your eyes. phil! oh no. (under his breath)
cub, she s returned to the wild. people did get attached to this bear. it became albuquerque s bear. mama bear coming and looking for her cub, this traumatic incident occurs, yet they are reunited and able to be turned loose. i think it is a story of hope, you know. many wildlife officials rely on airbags to cushion the fall of bears they have to sedate, a development they owe, in some part, to sparky the bear. december 6th, 2010. in tucson, arizona, another animal is stuck high on an electrical pole. this time, a cat who s been up there for three days. i just thought the cat might either slip and fall off or get into the power lines and get shocked and die. but kim, the cat, surprises everyone. on a monday, cameraman andrew brown heads out to cover the
story. all day, phone lines had been buzzing in the newsroom. people were so upset about this cat being on this pole and them not being able to get it down that i didn t know what to expect, but i knew it was going to be kind of crazy. when andrew arrives on the scene, a crowd has formed. looking 30 feet up at one very confused cat. people heard about it. i came out this morning, and i ve been here ever since. you know, it s like, let s watch. the cat s been up there since saturday, 4:00 p.m. with no food, no water, and as you can see, everybody s standing around. so, see how it turns out. live entertainment. also on the scene are kim s owners, amber fernandez, who s deaf, and her mother, lisa. we ve had her for two years, and now she is stuck up there. i don t know what to do. if you touch one of the wires, it s high voltage. it doesn t take much to kill a
she was scared of the two men. for kim the cat, it is a big decision. should she stay or should she go? i didn t know what was going to happen. i kept thinking that it was going to get shocked. one of the onlookers on site provides the play-by-play. oh, jesus, joseph, mary, please. oh, god, oh, god, oh, my god, oh, my god. can you let the boys take you? let the boys take you. oh, no. suddenly, she jumps. oh, my god! ahhhhh! it looked like, kind of like slow motion. it was shock and awe. it was like a moment of sheer terror. you can hear it. everybody just gasped. a cat s physical make-up helps it to brace for these kinds of falls. it was almost like she was flying like a flying squirrel does. because she was all four, you know, arms and legs out and she was kind of gliding down. and then when she hit, i was praying inside my head, god, please make my cat safe.
behind there at the pump. at the local k&k food mart, the store s surveillance camera captured what happens. that s sam dressed in hunting camouflage. paid for my gas, had a little conversation with the patrons inside. among them, emil lajoie. it is just by luck that he s safe inside when an explosion rocks the gas station. well, i was in the store, i went to the counter to change my pump number, and that s when it all happened. kim is in the couple s pickup fiddling with the radio when suddenly, a terrifying noise. i heard this huge sound, the truck shook, and i hit the floorboards. it felt like a bomb, to be honest with you. or that the gas pump blew up. sam shows us where he stood when it all went down. next thing i know, all i seen was this orange v framed out by the brightest white.