Trapped: Possum on a hot tin roof. Or, this is not the time to play possum.

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As they go, this did not appear to be all that interesting of a fire video from Sanctuary Point in New South Wales, Australia. That is until 1:13 in the clip. That’s when all eyes of the Rural Fire Service firefighters and the videographer from Gama Video Productions are drawn to the roof of the vacant house to learn that it wasn’t as vacant as was originally thought (I fully expect Backstep Firefighter’s Bill Carey to give us the Animal Planet episode of his continuing series “Why We Search”).

The description with the video says an arrest was made shortly after the fire. No details on who it was. Hate to stereotype, but my hunch is it’s either an eagle, hawk, owl, fox or quoll (I don’t even know what a quoll is) who, according to my sources, are all part of the possum’s rival gangs in Australia.

As for the possum, he or she (Australia’s version of HIPAA doesn’t allow RFS to reveal the sex of the patient) decided they could wait no longer and did a self rescue. But I’m sure it learned a lesson about the importance of smoke alarms.

And before anyone else comments, I am going to agree with what I am sure some of the PETA people among our readers are thinking when seeing this video. The videographer was a bit of a ghoul. How would they feel if that was their relative being shot at such a vulnerable moment in their lives?

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