The black cat in Chicago reportedly spend several moment looking out the window of the smoldering building , apparently estimate whether she could make the leap .

This computerized tomography jumps from a burning edifice in Chicago — five stories to the ground!—and … just trots off like it was no braggy bargain .

The Chicago Fire Department post video of the black computerized tomography making the monumental leap on Thursday afternoon after a fire had been mostly extinguished in the metropolis ’s Englewood neighborhood , according to theChicago Sun - Times .

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Spokesman Larry Langford told the newspaper that the black cat on the fifth floor had been looking over the ledge of a wiped out window for several second , enough that looker-on below noticed it . you’re able to see her legs elongate out as smoke filters out of the adjacent window .

Seconds after , she leaps out with what sounds like an exclamatory miaow — likely somewhere on the spectrum between " Wahoo ! " and " I ’ve made a huge mistake!"—as looker-on gasp . She drop rapidly and narrowly clear a short wall outside the building . She bounces once off the grass and then jog off nonchalantly .

Langford told theSun - Timesthe hombre was n’t hurt , and she even tried to get back into the flat construction .

" It went under my car and hide until she felt better after a couple of minute and issue forth out and tried to surmount the wall to get back in , " Langford told the paper .

No one was injure in the fervor , but one resident told the paper the cat sure add up some extra latent hostility to an already - dramatic afternoon .

" I ’m just glad no one got hurt . Thank God that cats do have nine life . I hope I got nine , " Elizabeth Thomas suppose .