FIREFIGHTERS IN DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA, ARE WONDERING IF there was any room for the people at a house fire Tuesday. The fire was started by a colony of carpenter ants inside the walls of Rhonda Spivey’s home in the morning when their nest caused a hot short at an electrical outlet. When her husband came running out to the garden to tell her that the house was on fire, Rhonda’s first thought was for the 50 cats that she kept inside. She ran into the house and began opening cat cages and urging them to flee.
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After the fire was put out by the DBFD, they recovered nine dead cats. 36 of the others have been rounded up and there are still a few more hiding in the woods.
WESH-TV shows what all went on there:
Spivey had become a sort of cat-rescue lady where people would bring her strays, etc., and she would try to find homes for them. But she says that after this experience, she’s done with the cat-rescue mission.
