ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia State Police trooper rescued a 4-week-old kitten late Friday after the animal was spotted on Interstate 395 in Alexandria, according to ALXnow reporting that cited state police.
The report said Virginia State Police were alerted at about 11:54 p.m. Friday, June 5, after a driver saw the kitten on I-395 near the King Street exit.
A state trooper safely retrieved the kitten from the interstate, according to the report. The kitten was then taken to a nearby animal hospital.
State police said the kitten was receiving food, water and care. Officials did not immediately know how the kitten ended up on the interstate, ALXnow reported.
The story is a small one, but it is the kind of public-safety moment people remember: a late-night interstate call, traffic risk, an animal too young to protect itself and a trooper stopping long enough to get it out of danger.
ThinBlueNews is using the real source photo attributed by ALXnow to Virginia State Police. No staged, generated or reenacted rescue image was used.