Local family credits cat with escape from fire

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Firefighters from Upper Darby and Drexel Hill made quick work of the wind-whipped blaze that gutted a two-story twin home on the 900 block of Anderson Ave. Wednesday morning .

However, for homeowner Bernadette Clark, the real drama was just beginning. Clark, her husband and an adult daughter were at home around 9 a.m.when Bernadette put her 3-year-old female tortoise shell cat Mishka in an upstairs front bedroom to keep her away from the family's 1-year-old male, Casanova. The two cats don't always get along.