A heating unit may have sparked the deadly blaze. Over the weekend, 100 ball python snakes were lost in a house fire. According to Brandon Repovz, of Hempfield Township, the snakes were worth $30,000.

OAK PARK, Ill. — Almost like a scene from the 2006 cult classic “Snakes on a Plane,” fire crews in the western suburbs were called in to help after a curious pet got loose on a Green Line train while ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Police in Dauphin County have a strange question, but one that needs to be asked: Is anyone in Lower Paxton Township missing a python? The Harrisburg-area police department said ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Crews responding to a trailer fire in southern Utah had another factor to contend with: snakes. Kristeen Checketts, the animal control officer in St. George, says there were about ...