Fire Capt. Park Min-hwa(2nd left), leader of a rescue team at the Chuncheon Fire Station, received the plate from Cho Hee-kyung, director of the Korean Animal Welfare Association. (image: Chuncheon Fire Station)
CHUNCHEON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean firefighter received a plate of appreciation from an animal protection agency on Thursday after rescuing and reviving a cat found at the site of a fire.
Fire Capt. Park Min-hwa, leader of a rescue team at the Chuncheon Fire Station, received the plate from Cho Hee-kyung, director of the Korean Animal Welfare Association.
Park, in a fire that occurred in a local apartment in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province on March 19, was rescuing residents when he found the cat in a small room, unable to breathe.
He immediately brought the cat outside and tried to resuscitate it for four or five minutes, eventually succeeding.
Fire Capt. Park Min-hwa trying to resuscitate the cat. (image: Chuncheon Fire Station)
Park said he learned animal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) through YouTube videos, and already had experience resuscitating a cat back in 2017.
The cat received treatment for two days, after which it was sent back to its original owner.
“For the owner, the cat is like a family member, and that made me all the more eager to help the cat live,” said Park. “Now I have more reasons to work harder at rescue sites.”
M. H. Lee (mhlee@koreabizwire.com)
