Women reunited with cats lost in East Village explosion

After an explosion in the East Village killed two people and destroyed three buildings, many residents fear that their pets have been killed. Yesterday two women who lived at 125 2nd Avenue were reunited with their cats. 

 

The ASPCA and the NYPD are searching the building, which is locked down under a full vacate order. As they sifted through the rubble, they first located Kathleen Blomberg's cats, Kitty Cordelia and Sebastian, hiding under the bed in her seventh floor apartment.

 

They also located one of two of Yvonne Collery's cats, Laszlo, hiding inside a closet in her fourth floor apartment. Collery's other cat, Lulu, is still missing. 

 

The ASPCA, along with the NYPD and the FDNY, is working tirelessly to find more pets from the destroyed buildings, and hopefully reunite them with their owners.