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Chicago cat survives daring jump off five-storey building to escape fire
14 May, 2021 04:08 AM
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Screenshot of a video showing a cat leap from a building to escape a fire. Photo / Chicago Fire Department
Screenshot of a video showing a cat leap from a building to escape a fire. Photo / Chicago Fire Department
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A cat in Chicago may now have eight lives after jumping out of a fifth-floor window Thursday afternoon (local time) to escape an apartment fire.
Chicago Fire Department personnel were taking a video of the exterior of the building as firefighters were extinguishing the blaze when a black cat appeared through billowing smoke at a broken window.
Belmont track hosts Gilford and Bishop Brady
Emilie DeFrancesco takes the baton from Cate McDonald in the 4X400-meter relay Saturday. (Photo by Joshua Spaulding) (
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May 12, 2021BELMONT For the second week in a row, the Belmont track team hosted a Saturday meet that lasted less than two hours, as the Raiders hosted Gilford and Bishop Brady.
Mitchell Berry picked up the win in the 110-meter hurdles for the Belmont boys with a time of 18.99 seconds. Berry also won the 300-meter hurdles in 50.64 seconds and Colby Vetter finished in second in 54.03 seconds.
Micah Edgren won the 400 meters with a time of 54.4 seconds.
Consumer prices jumped at the fastest pace in more than a decade in April, surprising economists and intensifying a debate on Wall Street and in Washington over whether inflation might reach levels that would squeeze households and ultimately undermine the recovery.
Economists and central bank officials said the numbers reflected pandemic-driven trends that would most likely prove temporary. But investors and politicians are worried that prices will keep climbing potentially pressuring the Federal Reserve to lift interest rates sharply. That could slow economic growth and send stock prices plummeting. On Wednesday, stocks slumped more than 2 percent, their biggest decline since late February, after the government reported in the morning that the closely monitored Consumer Price Index climbed 4.2 percent in April from a year earlier, its fastest pace since 2008.