Bunny Blown Onto Roof In Storm Rescued By Heroic Firefighters

While everyone knows the old trope about cats getting stuck in trees , its not as often that you ear about a rabbit stuck on a roof.

But firefighters in Northern Ireland dealt with just such a case on Friday, when winds from Storm Gertrude threw Bumper the bunnys hutch into the air, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

The wind caught the hutch and sent it flying into the air and it has catapulted the rabbit out of the hutch and onto the roof, Omagh Fire Station district commander David Doherty told BT.com.

#OneHappyBunny rescued this morning by #OmaghCrew after #StormGertrude made his hutch airborne @NIFRSOFFICIAL pic.twitter.com/B9GTcMHv8R

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#OneHappyBunny rescued this morning by #OmaghCrew after #StormGertrude made his hutch airborne @NIFRSOFFICIAL pic.twitter.com/B9GTcMHv8R
NIFRSWest (@NIFRSWest) January 29, 2016

Bumper -- renamed Gertrude to commemorate the incident -- was out of the hutch by the time it crashed against the side of the house. But the bunny was still stuck on the roof.

Fortunately, firefighters were soon on the scene with multiple ladders and a reach pole. The rescue took less than 40 minutes, according to Mashable.

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