Local animal rescue volunteers assured that a curious kitty was led to safety after Fort Lauderdale fire crews attempted to rescue her from where she'd gotten stuck atop a light on the edge of a causeway bridge about 50 feet above water.
NBC 6 chopper footage Wednesday showed the cat perched on a lamp jutting out of the 17th Street causeway, with a firetruck nearby and several firefighters working their way over.
The cat eventually hopped away from its rescuers, running back onto the bridge and across one of the lanes.
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Deputies decided that since the cat was believed to be part of a feral kitty community that lives in the area, it would be best to prevent it from running off the bridge or into traffic.
An NBC 6 viewer later wrote that two Good Karma Rescue of South Florida volunteers, Nevin Tasci-Mason and Christina Antonacci, had gone to the bridge to walk the cat down safely.
The viewer confirmed that the cat, a female, is part of a colony fed by Joelle Polan, another Good Karma Rescue volunteer.
