Overview
- The owner, who had reported the cat missing, heard meowing around 8 a.m. Saturday in Oberhausen and called the Berufsfeuerwehr Augsburg.
- The animal was wedged in a tight space between the air filter box and the engine block and could not move on its own.
- A crew including a car mechatronics technician and a machinist opened the vehicle and removed the air filter and other components to reach the cat.
- The car was unregistered, and firefighter Friedhelm Bechtel said the cat might have died without intervention.
- The fire brigade notes that animal rescues are part of its remit under the principle of prioritizing people, then animals, then property, with low‑noise techniques used to avoid panic.