Claims extracted
24
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
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He doesn’t wear a mask or cape, but John DeBacker is a hero to one Long Island family.
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DeBacker → wear → family
Wearing his “Catman” T-shirt, DeBacker pulled off the intricate rescue of a frightened and exhausted cat named Lola who had spent about five days trapped, likely upside down for most of that time, behind a wall in her family’s old home in the New York City suburbs.
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who → wear → suburbs
Lola’s ordeal began about two weeks before the rescue, when she ducked under a floorboard while the family was moving out of their second-floor apartment in Franklin Square.
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family → begin → Square
That’s when DeBacker and his team were called in.
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DeBacker → ’ → ?
DeBacker, who has been rescuing cats for at least 15 years, set a trap with food and cameras in the hopes of luring Lola out, but she’d avoid the trap when she emerged at night.
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she → rescue → night
Things took a turn for the worse when she stopped showing up at all — she had fallen and was now stuck behind a first-floor wall.
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she → take → wall
When they found her, Lola was trapped upside-down, eating insulation and becoming increasingly weak.
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Lola → find → insulation
DeBacker was losing hope that they’d get her out alive.
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they → lose → her
But their luck changed last Friday.
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luck → change → ?
With a contractor’s help, they used an electric saw to start cutting a hole in the wall and managed to see Lola through an endoscopic camera.
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they → use → camera
She seemed nervous, so to prevent her from trying to flee further into the wall, they switched to a quieter drill.
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they → seem → drill
“After two weeks we did not want to lose the cat again,” he said.
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he → want → cat
In video of the rescue, DeBacker can be seen reaching through the narrow hole, where he made contact with Lola’s hind legs.
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he → see → legs
He then moves into a standing position, shifts his weight back and carefully pulls her out backward.
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He → move → her
“Safe!” a woman can be heard saying as the dusty and exhausted cat is placed into a towel-lined crate.
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cat → hear → crate
When Lola was finally freed, DeBacker described it as the greatest feeling in the world.
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DeBacker → free → world
“We were all so happy,” he said.
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he → say → ?
“It’s pretty miraculous that the cat survived there five days with no food or water,” DeBacker said.
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DeBacker → ’ → food
“And when you’re upside-down, all the blood is rushing to your head.”
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blood → ’re → head
Lola was taken to an emergency vet, where they found insulation in her body, he said.
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he → take → body
She is now back with her family and struggling with a poor appetite.
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She → struggle → appetite
Her family has been taking her to the vet to try to figure out what’s going on, he said.
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he → take → vet
DeBacker, who has four cats of his own, offered a word of caution to any fellow cat owners who are preparing to move: “Secure the cats first and not after all the moving.
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who → have → moving
The moving will scare the cat into hiding.”
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moving → move → hiding
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