As a parent we know we would do anything to protect our children, our desire to keep them safe comes before our own safety and wellbeing.

One mother cat stepped into a deadly situation when she saved her kittens from a burning building.

When firefighters were called to the garage fire in Brooklyn they noticed the heroic cat carrying her kittens one by one out of the flaming building.

She went back into the burning building five times to rescue her babies and after she had carried them to safety she touched each of their noses to make sure they were still alive.

The cat, later named Scarlett, then collapsed after her heroic rescue.

According to an account on imgur firefighter David Giannelli noticed the brave cat saving her kittens.

“Scarlett herself had been severely burned in the process of pulling her kittens from the fire. Her eyes were blistered shut, her ears and paws burned, and her coat highly singed,” the post read.