Firefighters usually get called to help cats stuck up trees. Yesterday it was a human in a cat flap.
The Rotorua Fire Brigade helped rescue a woman who got stuck in a cat flap after she had found herself locked out of her Hillcrest home about 9.40am.
"She was stuck by her hips, she couldn't move forwards or back, but the fire brigade came to the rescue," said senior station officer Richard Anastasi.
"It was bigger than a normal cat flap. We had to break the glass in the door to get her out.
"She was quite distressed when we got there," he said.