<p>CHICAGO — A Chicago cat may now have eight lives after jumping out of a fifth-floor window Thursday afternoon to escape an apartment fire. </p>
<p>Chicago Fire Department personnel were <a href="https://bit.ly/3hlQCGk">taking a video</a><a href="https://bit.ly/2QeTvxo"></a> of the exterior of the building as firefighters were extinguishing the blaze when a black cat appeared through billowing smoke at a broken window. The fire-fleeing feline briefly tested the side of the building with its front paws, and then jumped. </p>
<p>Onlookers gasped as the cat fell. But it missed a wall as it hurtled downward and instead landed on all four paws atop grass, where it bounced once and immediately ran away. </p>
<p>“It went under my car and hid until she felt better after a couple of minutes and came out and tried to scale the wall to get back in,” said fire department spokesman Larry Langford. </p>
<p>The cat was not injured, Langford said, adding he was trying to track down its owner.</p>
<p>No injuries were reported after the fire, which was confined to one apartment. The cause of the fire hasn’t been reported by officials, nor how much damage resulted.</p>
