A New York animal shelter founder and at least 100 cats were killed in a fire on Monday.
Christopher Arsenault, 65, died trying to rescue the felines from his Long Island home, which functioned as the nonprofit Happy Cat Sanctuary, according to the Associated Press.
“He came out and tried to put the fire out, and he went back in and he kept taking cats out until he went back in and he didn’t come out,” a choked-up Lisa Jaeger said in a Facebook video post. Jaeger is the founder of the nonprofit Jaeger’s Run Animal Rescue in Port Jefferson, New York.
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At least 150 cats survived, some of which were treated for burns and smoke inhalation at nearby animal hospitals, according to the AP.
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