Owner thinks cat has disappeared forever after fire
The Los Angeles fires caused extensive devastation and cost 29 people their lives before January 27, says Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
Carolyn Kiefer recalled the day to Newsweek and explained that she was on her way to a radiation therapy with her mother to treat her lung cancer as she noticed smoke clouds that 'seemed very close to our homes'.
Carolyn Kiefer's brother, Peter Kiefer, first took their mother home to herself to keep her safety for the fire. Then he rushed back on his bike to the family's homes to save important photographs, documents and the three cats who lived in the house.
« My sister's two cats lived with my parents, and my mother had Aggie, her beloved Maine Coon of five years, whom she had been given by an old friend from College in Maine, » Carolyn Kiefer explained, according to the media Newsweek.
While Peter Kiefer succeeded in saving his sister's cats, Aggie fled – and although he stayed there for hours, among other things, flushing the roof and helping neighbors evacuate, and Carolyn and her father arrived to help, it soon became clear that they fought a hopeless fight against nature's forces.
« The house was filled with smoke and ash and you couldn't see more than a few meters in front of it. There was no electricity, the alarms were howling and it was hard to breathe. I took the two cats and put them in my car, » Carolyn said.
However, they kept trying, flushing the roof and turning off glow, but 'Aggie was nowhere to find'. And eventually 'they had to leave'.
« It was terrible to tell my mother that we hadn't found Aggie. We felt we had failed, » she said.
« The next morning we could drive into Palisades and saw that we had lost our home. It looked like a war zone and it seemed impossible that Aggie could have survived such a fire. »
For the next two months, the family began to collect the pieces in their lives again, but Carolyn says her mother was 'very sad' over not only losing her home but also her beloved cat.
