Emergency workers have rescued cats, dogs and even parrots from evacuated homes in the Sicilian town of Niscemi after it was hit by a major landslide on Sunday. Pino Terzo Di Dio was in tears as firefighters carried his beloved parrots out of his home, which has been cordoned off as his town teeters on a cliff edge. They were the latest pets to be saved by firefighters from hundreds of homes that were evacuated in the Sicilian town of Niscemi after a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) long stretch of hillside collapsed. "They are scared," Di Dio told AFP, his voice breaking as the emergency workers carried the parrots – four cockatiels and a parakeet – out of his house in two cages, buffeted by the wind. 'Help us'Firefighter Franco Turco said emergency workers had rescued "quite a few dogs, cats – and now parrots".