Fox News Animal Rescuing Plumbing Firm
 We
have been blessed with being experts in sewers, drain line
video inspections and locating problems in sewers. We
believe in giving back to our community, especially to help
mother nature's critters that bring such joy to our lives.
Because of that, we have donated our drainpipe, video,
locating and plumbing services pro bono to the local SPCA
and the L.A. City Fire Department for rescues of all types.
We have been the go-to experts in many animal rescues, from
"Squiggles the Squirrel" to "Hickey the Kitten". Our latest
animal rescue made it on prime time broadcast television and
even ran during the World Series and appeared on Fox TV's
Fox Favorites.
The story of Hickey the baby kitten commenced with a call
from a frantic woman who observed a little baby kitten
scampering into that "fun dark hole" on the patio that ended
up being a patio area drain opening without a proper cover.
Dave Bischof himself went out and sent our color video
camera down the vertical drain line. There 8 feet straight
down was the baby kitten sitting on top of a pile of debris.
She could have never made it out and would have starved to
death.
Since we perform flood water cleanup and water extraction
services, out came our water extraction vacuums and a color
sewer video camera. The fine men of the L.A. City Fire
Department Van Nuys Station 90 arrived shortly thereafter,
and after observing Dave Bischof at work, stated that it
appeared he had a better plan and offered to assist. The
firemen manned our vacuum suction equipment and together
they selected the weakest suction strength motor. It was
Dave Bischof's concern that if the suction hose dropped down
over the kittens eyes and mouth, it could dislocate her eyes
or possibly collapse her lungs. That would be horrible!
Dave Bischof next dropped the suction hose down with our
color video drain camera head at the end. Each time it
approached the baby kitten, she tilted her head upwards to
look at the strange interesting object approaching her,
exactly what we didn't want. This went on for some time, and
the kittens natural reaction was the same each time. Finally
we were left with no choice, so one final time down the line
went the video camera and suction hose. Sure enough the
kitten was looking upwards bright eyed as can be. Within
just inches of contact, at the last possible second the
kitten tilted her head downwards just as the suction hose
made contact safely to the top crown of her head. Up she
went with folded paws and was safely out into his hands
within less than 5 seconds. The L.A. City firemen could be
heard cheering as the kitten was safely rescued by Dave
Bischof, oblivious to what her fate would have been. To her
it was just another wide eyed adventure!
The L.A. City Fire Department mentioned that their standard
animal rescue procedure would have been to jackhammer the
concrete patio and excavate down to the kitten, but after
seeing how we did it, they sent out an inter-department memo
outlining how we used sewer video camera's and gentle
suction vacuums to non-invasively rescue the kitten with no
damage to the property and that was the new protocol they
would use.
Since the kitten was rescued with gentle suction out of a
vertical drain, Dave Bischof mischievously named her
"Hickey" and she was taken to
Veterinary Medical Center where Steven Aboulafia DVM and
his staff provided free care and with the assistance of Fox
TV got her adopted. |
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| Your technician was
outstanding! He was prompt, paid attention to his
work-knew what he was doing and it showed. -
N. Shaffer |
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