Why do I have this constant feeling someone on here will try this, if they haven 't already! And if they do, or have, do they have what it takes to step up and admit it? As "Dirty Harry" once said............"Well do you?"
While I won't try to speak for "all" fire departments, the one I worked for "did not" get cats out of trees. That was an official policy. Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree? No, because they will come down when they get hungry.