Fire fighters in St. George, Utah, had more to deal than flames when they responded to a fire in a local trailer park. The flames were the easy part. The hard part was rescuing the trailer owner’s 19 pet pythons from the blaze. In the words of Indiana Jones: “Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?” No word on if any firefighters snapped and declared an embargo on snakes in a flame.
Amazingly, of the 19 snakes caught in the fire, 11 of them survived, including an 18-foot-long monster serpent. The cause of the blaze is believed to be a malfunctioning heat lamp for one of the many, many snake terrariums within the trailer. If they were all plugged into the same breaker, then it’s a miracle the fire hadn’t happened by now.
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