GROVELAND, Fla. — A stray kitten that hitched a ride from Orlando to Groveland is now living the good life with one of the firefighters who rescued it.
Back in September, Lake County Fire Rescue firefighters Anthony Huntley and Tim Roe responded to a call about a kitten trapped somewhere inside a vehicle. The car’s driver had just returned home from the University of Central Florida when she realized she could hear faint meowing but couldn’t locate the animal.
She told firefighters she first spotted the kitten darting across a road near UCF. When she pulled over and got out to help, the kitten vanished. Unbeknownst to her, the feline had climbed up into her car’s undercarriage and rode all the way to Groveland — more than 30 miles away.
After a careful search, Huntley and Roe managed to safely extract the kitten. With no one immediately available to adopt the animal, they placed it in a box and brought it back to the fire station to figure out their next move.
By the end of the evening, Roe agreed to give the kitten a permanent home…