Deputies on search and rescue hear ‘a tiny cry.’ Then comes different type of rescue

During a routine training session, a K-9 alerted deputies that there may be a rodent inside a search and rescue truck.

A technician was asked to inspect the truck, but before they could, volunteer deputies were called to a search and rescue mission at the Vista House in the Gorge, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in an Aug. 28 Facebook post.

“The truck traveled over 10 miles at freeway speeds and another 5 miles up the winding road to the call location,” deputies said.

Deputies were gearing up to head out, but then “they heard a tiny cry.”

“They figured out the noises were coming from the truck,” the sheriff’s office said.

While other volunteers headed into the field, two stayed behind to search for the source of the cries, according to deputies.

They took apart the “wheel-well on the truck to reach the inner mechanical spaces,” deputies said

In doing so, they discovered something furry: “a small black kitten,” deputies said.

A veterinarian examined the kitten, which is in good health, aside from a cold, deputies said.

They named the young cat Vista, after the landmark where they made the rescue. The kitten was adopted by one of the search and rescue deputies, bringing a close to its “unlikely story.”

Vista House is about a 25-mile drive east from Portland.

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