Seth Meyer/Nevada Appeal Shanon Shamblin of the Brake Team in Carson City holds a kitten he rescued from traffic on Highway 395. Shamblin believes the kitten, whose paws and fur are singed, was displaced by the fire and wandered out of the hills on Wednesday.

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Kitten that survived fire safe in arms of mechanic

• By ncs-import
• August 3, 2004