Firefighters Rescue Woman Who Got Stuck Up Tree Trying To Save Her Cat

“I climbed up the tree by instinct. He was shaking, I just wanted to comfort him.

“He actually fell asleep when I got to him. When I reached up I could stroke him.”

But Maria said she realised she was also stranded when the wind picked up and branches started swaying, so she called her husband.

“He asked if I could come down and I thought, ‘right, I can’t talk because I’m actually scared now’,” she said.

“I didn’t realise I was really high up.”

She said he left work to help and arrived 15 minutes later, then phoned the fire brigade, adding: “I don’t think they were that bothered until they heard I was up there too.

“I think now it’s actually funny – but when I was up there it wasn’t.”

Parry ventured up the tree after borrowing a cat box from a neighbour, Deborah Baxter, a hypnotherapist who works from home.