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.
distance, i can remember the feeling of being in that moment. few people know what it feels like to come in conduct with lightning. but another person who can relate is sam hall. to get hit by lightning, the feeling is it s pretty much undescribable because it happened so fast. you just feel the rush. you feel the current travel through your body. i was worried that i would be might have been paralyzed. barker, new york. for sam and his girlfriend, kim fen, october 3rd, 2008, began as an ordinary day. they were unfazed by the darkening skies above. we get a lot of rain around here, so you really don t think
praying inside my head, god, please make my cat safe. 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. you total your brand new car.
cat. with amber and her as close as they are, it would be very painful. given the risks to their employees, the power company is reluctant to intervene. but by the third day, the crowd is demanding action. i was going to get my spike shoes and climb up the pole but they said they would arrest anybody that attempts it. the police informed us that someone considered climbing our energized equipment to try and remove the cat. so, when that happened, we decided that the best course of action would be to try and bring the cat down. tucson electric shuts down the power, leaving more than 2,000 people without electricity. still, there s residual charge left in those lines, enough to make the operation dangerous for kim the cat and her rescuers as well. it got really, really tense. everybody was just nervous and there was a lot of tension in the air. it was scary because the cat started getting scared.
she gains 75 pounds. and after reuniting with her 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.