New Castle, Pennsylvania — One western Pennsylvania fire department learned that there's not necessarily fire wherever there's smoke.
New
Castle's assistant fire chief Jim Donston tells The Associated Press
that firefighters were called when an electrical outlet on a floor was
smoking, only to find that happened because the family's cat urinated
into the outlet.
The New Castle News first reported the incident Friday and Donston supplied more details to the AP.
The
assistant chief says a Columbia Gas worker was at the house checking
for a possible leak when he noticed the smoking outlet and called the
fire department Wednesday about 7:30 p.m.
Donston says firefighters "found the receptacle wet from cat urine" and shut off the electrical supply to that circuit.
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