Meise A property in the Kraaienbroeklaan in Meise is Friday morning heavily damaged by a fire in the living room was. That the residents safely out of their house fell, have they owe to their cat. The pet meowed Gregory (21) wake up, which he, his mother and sister (21) off the bed and screamed. The cat had to be cared for to the vet.
About 7.30 am startled Gregory Mauersberger awake by the loud meows of his cat. “Initially I thought that the cat in my bed wanted, what he each morning however,” says the 21-year-old the story. “But because he kept meowing, I knew there was something wrong. When I right put in my bed, I saw suddenly a lot of smoke in my room hanging. I could the ceiling not even see it anymore. It was immediately clear that something is burning in our house.”
Gregory tried thereon in the direction of the room of his younger brother to run to wake him up, but could barely breathe due to the many smoke. “In a reflex I took a piece of clothing from my closet, I walked with them to the toilet and I made it wet and then my nose and mouth. That way I could still be a way through the thick smoke. But he was already on the way to school, which my mother off the bed and shrugged. My half-sister, as the only one on the upper floor sleeping, I finally woke up screamed.”
