Firefighters responding to an apartment fire alarm got a little more than they bargained for Monday afternoon — in the form of snakes. According to Larry Mueller, assistant fire marshal for Rochester, ...

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.

SEOUL: A baby ball python, an endangered species native to Africa, was found inside a hotel room in Yangyang County, Gangwon province, according to news reports on Wednesday (June 25). When ...

Recent sightings of invasive Burmese pythons at Florida homes were caught on video. Are these massive snakes invading urban ...

A pet ball python named Lucius escaped from his pirate-costumed owner on a CTA Green Line train and hid inside a control box. Oak Park firefighters were called to the Harlem stop and safely rescued ...

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 ...

A python in Queensland, Australia, got quite a scratchy surprise when the 5-foot-long (1.5 meters) snake gulped down a tennis ball this week. Luckily for the reptile, veterinarians were able to remove ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A driver drove straight to the Cyberjaya fire station after seeing a large python emerging from the hood of his moving car. The incident caught in a two-minute and 48-second video was ...

There are plenty of expected, unexpected and just plain unusual emergencies that New Hyde Park firefighters face on a daily basis. It's safe to say that for Chief Steven Waldron and his crew, a Toyota ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --Firefighters in Florida were flagged down by a driver with an unusual emergency -- they found a python in the engine compartment of their truck. The Fort Myers Fire Department said in ...

CHURCH HILL — There were no human casualties in a mobile home fire Thursday afternoon on Fudges Chapel Road, but a 6-year-old ball python named Oscar lost his life, presumably due to the intense heat.