Screenshot of a video showing a cat leap from a building to escape a fire. Photo / Chicago Fire DepartmentA 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. pic.twitter.com/LRBsjMta2Z — Chicago Fire Media (@CFDMedia) May 13, 2021Onlookers gasped as the cat fell. She left her apartment and walked outside the building to see smoke coming out of the unit below hers. Thomas said she didn't see the cat make the leap, but heard everyone around her react to its escape.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 14, 2021 04:28 UTC