Firefighters Rescue Dozens Of Cats From Burning Ohio Home

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Firefighters in Belmont County saved about 50 cats from a burning home early Wednesday.

Carole Busby, the woman who lived in the home, said she was shaken up but said she's counting her blessings that both she and many of her pets survived.

The fire started in a Bellaire duplex on Rosehill Pike around 5 a.m. Officials said the blaze originated with an overloaded electrical circuit.

"The flames just shot up the wall and engulfed the whole wall and then the ceiling, and then, all of a sudden, I was just in an oven," Busby said. "I was so terrified."

Three cats are still unaccounted for, said Busby's daughter, Aimee Valle.

"They belong here because they have family here and because ... it would be nice to have them all together again," Valle said.

Busby is staying with her daughter in the adjacent side of the duplex and said she doesn't think she'll be able to move back into her own home.

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