It was the shift change at Capital Health Regional Medical Center when a nurse heard faint squeaks and meows coming from the sewer in the back of the hospital ambulance bay.
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It took about 15 people - trauma nurses, EMTs, technicians and security officers - two hours to open the grate, jump down and rescue the scared cat. They lured him out with cat food and turkey.
Heather Hendrickson, a trauma nurse, even wrapped the kitty up like a newborn in a swaddle as she lifted him to a waiting nurse practitioner, Celeste Shamma.
The cat is male and his new name is "Trent" after Trenton -- the city where his story turned around for the better.
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And of course, there's a happy ending.
Trent now lives with a registered nurse and her two kids.
Hendrickson says this was not her first time rescuing an animal. She once saved an injured squirrel on the hospital grounds too.