Calling the fire department to rescue a cat from a tree is cliché enough, but a bunch of rookie firefighters on their first official call? Even the hackiest sitcom writer would call that contrived.

That's what happened in Evansville on Sunday. Evansville Fire and EMS Capt. Dan Coursen and a group of trainees dropped what they were doing to help rescue a cat from a tree it had curiously climbed.

"It's the first time I've ever gotten a cat out of a tree in 18 years," Coursen told Cowboy State Daily. "We've had several of those calls, but it's the first time I've ever had to go do it."

To The Rescue

Coursen and two other Evansville firefighters were training four rookies on Sunday when they got a call from the Evansville Police Department. Someone spotted a cat that had climbed a tree and

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