a team of Heroes honored on the big screen tonight as a local cat rescue group had stepped up to save dozens of cats on the catastrophic campfire are profiled in an award-winning documentary the film focuses on Wildfire response tonight hundreds turned out to see these Courageous Cat Savers in action and to help raise money for their life-saving work the 2018 campfire near the town of paradise is California's deadliest and most destructive Wildfire on record people had lost everything and as peo
ple rushed to evacuate thousands of pets were left behind hey sweetie there you are now a feature-length documentary is recognizing the efforts of animal rescue groups that go into fire zones and save stranded Pets the intent of the film is to Showcase what we did Joyce Smith is founder of fieldhaven feline Center and is one of The Rescuers profiled in the movie we set up a shelter up there and lived in an RV for five six months she says one of the most emotional moments in the film shows a pet
being reunited with its owner there's nothing more heartwarming than watching a teenage boy sobbing finding his cat and there was so many reunions like that sadly some of the animal owners were among the 85 people who died Kate spear adopted one of the rescued cats whose owner was never identified it's been so gratifying over the years to watch her like relax and get much more comfortable the non-profit group spent more than one hundred thousand dollars during the campfire rescue efforts they're
now using the film as a fundraiser showing it to a sold-out crowd in Rocklin to raise money for their shelter this film has been winning Awards all over the world donations allow The Rescuers to purchase this new mobile vet clinic it has ever made when going to a desire disaster to say a lot learned since the campfire response their biggest recommendation is for animal owners to microchip their pets they have a microchip it's like that we can reunite them instantly and that happened too few tim
es and to add to this to try and round up cats right great work by this group you can check out the documentary tomorrow at the Rockland Century Theaters it'll play twice along with a fundraiser and raffle in the parking lot it starts at 1 30.
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