Cat on fire starts Bronx apartment blaze, leaving two people critical and five felines believed dead

nydailynews ^ | January 10, 2015 | Chauncey Alcorn

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t the Chicago fire start from a critter aflame?

Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked the bucket.

[ßuddaßudd]

hawt kitty !

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cats are notoriously curious, but not normally so about fires. How would it have achieved ignition anyhow? By jumping in the middle of the flaming grease? Again sounds very uncatly of the cat.

[csvset]

[Sherman Logan]

Used to do fire restoration work. This stuff, minus the cat part, happens all the time.

Grease catches fire, flames up three or four feet. Right thing to do is to put the lid on it, but people generally don’t.

What they do is panic, grab the skillet and try to run with it outside or to the sink. Well of course the flames rush up into their face, they drop the pan and the grease splatters across everything. Could certainly splash a cat, who would then obviously take off.

The other thing they do is throw water on the flames, which results in something like an explosion that throws flaming oil everywhere, some of which could of course get on the kitty.

[dennisw]

The cat was intoxicated by the aroma of cooking pork chops. Can made an unexpected lung at a pork chop. That’s when it caught on fire (my theory)

[tophat9000]

Does put a different take on someone asking you to “Put out the cat”

[kalee]

Chicago, cow kicked over a lantern.

[Revelation 911]

One of his cats caught fire and then ran around the home,

the proper term is "Bungalow Torpedo"....

[Slings and Arrows]

Poor kitties. Poor people.

[dennisw]

Bangalore torpedo

[dennisw]

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Jun 26, 2002 - Glad you concur - lest I turn my chicken upon your evil feline to peck peck peck and your precious tabby runs like a bungalow torpedo back to ...

[defconw]

I know my cats go crazy whenever there is any kind of pork being cooked. I guess cats are not going to turn Muslim on us. :)

[Fido969]

That was a Sampson trick.

[dennisw]

Strangely enough the Muzzies like cats as pets and have nothing against them (in their psycho way) the way they despise dogs

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090131072532AAPYjOo

[defconw]

Weird. Cats love pork. Maybe they think dogs eat cats? My dog is afraid of the cats. LOL As it should be.

[dennisw]

Dogs are afraid of cats being in a good position to swat them with their claws. The claws spook the dog

[dennisw]

Plus cats know how to do Jedi mind control tricks on the dogs

[defconw]

The hissing and growling doesn’t hurt either. My dog just wants to play, but the cats are not having it.

[Bon mots]

Sounds like a pigpen.