A lucky cat appears to have used up one of its nine lives as it was seen jumping from the fifth floor of a burning Chicago building seemingly unscathed.
Footage of the leap has been posted to the Chicago Fire Media's Twitter account and shows the moment the feline emerges out of a broken window through billowing smoke.
Onlookers can be heard gasping as the cat hurls itself out of the window - just inches away from hitting a wall. Fortunately, the lucky feline made a fairly delicate landing - on all fours on a patch of grass. It bounced once and then ran off.
Watch the insane moment that a black cat leaps from the fifth floor of a burning building:Chicago Fire Department personnel had been filming the exterior of the blazing building as a crew of firefighters attempted to extinguish the fire.
"It went under my car and hid until she felt better after a couple of minutes and came out and tried to scale the wall to get back in," said fire department spokesman Larry Langford, per the Guardian.
According to Langford, the cat did not sustain any serious injuries and he also added that he was trying to track down its owner.
Following the fire, which had set just one apartment alight, there were no reported injuries. The actual cause of the blaze - as well as the damage it caused - has not yet been reported in the media.
A number of people have since taken to Twitter to comment on the alarming video, with one writing: "Yeah, my cat jumped because a firefighter in full gear to grab her. She fell on the curb (5th floor) and broke her forelegs.
"But she was fine after that (there was no fire, she had jumped on the windows sill of the floor below us, and we were not at home)."
Another shared this fun "fact": "Cats can survive a fall from an unlimited height and the chance of injury actually decreases once the height is high enough for them to reach terminal velocity.
Once they reach the terminal velocity they spread their body out to significantly slow the rate of [descent]."
It is believed the cat is still without its owner - we can only hope they are reunited soon!
