Lucky the kitten lives up to his name, rescued from three-alarm fire in Harlem

This cat is, indeed, lucky.

A month-old kitten named Lucky survived a massive three-alarm fire that tore through a Harlem 99 Cent Store on Tuesday morning.

Lucky was in the basement of the building while his owner, Vincent, the building superintendent, was getting ready to take out the garbage when a fire broke out in the ground-floor store above.

The apartment quickly filled with smoke. Vincent couldn’t find Lucky in time — he had to evacuate the basement.

"I couldn’t find him," Vincent, who often takes the kitten to work with him, told DNAinfo.

"This is my little baby. I was losing my mind. I was crying and everything."

After an hour — and after the fire had grown into a three-alarm blaze that required about 140 firefighters to bring it under control — Vincent began to fear the worst.

And then a firefighter walked out of the burning building, carrying a small box with Lucky, unharmed, inside it.

"I had tears in my eyes," Vincent said. “I thought I’d never see him again.”

Fire marshals are still investigating the fire that damaged several apartments and the store next door — and sent four civilians and seven firefighters to the hospital with minor injuries.