Firefighters in Padang, Indonesia, used bolt cutters to set free a mother cat that was trapped in a house's iron gate.

Footage captured on July 12 shows the moment Padang City Fire Department officials snipped a section of the gate off so the could slide the feline out.

The rescue operation took around 30 minutes.

Padang city firefighters, West Sumatra. received a report of a cat pinned in an iron door in the house.

found reports of officers coming directly to the location in Parakeet, fresh water, Padang city. found the cat was still in a pinched state.

The officers immediately evacuated using iron cutters, to be able to release the cat's body that was pinned on the iron.

30 minutes of the evacuation process, finally the cat was successfully evacuated safely by the Padang city fire and rescue workers