The woman at the centre of a dramatic Saturday morning when five kittens were rescued from a burning a home has spoken of her joy that they survived.
Firefighters from Epsom and Esher were called to a house in Collier Close, West Ewell, at about 10.40am on Saturday.
From Sunday: Five kittens rescued from burning home by firefighters
Scott Saunders, 14, and his father were not in the house at the time of the kitchen fire, according to their neighbour Jenni Fullick.
But Miss Fullick, 28 - who has a cat, dog, hamster and fish - said she knew Scott had five four-day-old kittens inside the home and alerted the fireman to fetch them.
The fire service brought them out of the house and put them in Miss Fullick’s front garden - where her seven-year-old Tyler helped administer oxygen to the kittens for half an hour.
Scott later retrieved the kittens and moved them back home - although two of them will now be welcomed by new families when they are old enough.
Miss Fullick said: "They all woke up and were fine.
"Tyler absolutely loved it. He’s told all his school about it. He was proud he got to help the firemen.
"When it’s old enough we will keep one of the kittens because we’ve become attached to them.
"My mum, dad and sister will have one too.
"We will call it Lucky.
"It was quite a drama for a Saturday morning."
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