Cats save mother and baby from fire

A fire started in an apartment at Ásbrú in Reykjanesbær, south Iceland this morning and according to police, cats alerted the inhabitants of the fire. 

A mother had been putting her baby daughter down for a nap in her bedroom at 10 am this morning when she heard her three cats scratching heavily on the bedroom door. When she opened the door to see what was upsetting the cats she was met wih a lot of smoke and a blazing fire. They managed to get out of the bedroom window but police had to save the three cats who suffered from smoke inhalation and were found passed out on the bedroom floor. "The cats were saved through the bedroom window. Policemen put oxygen masks on the cats and resusicitated them. They were then taken to the local animal clinic," writes local paper Víkurfréttir. All cats are recovering. 

According to Víkurfréttir, the fire started in a pot on the stove.