Even snakes deserve to be rescued!

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Michigan Firefighter Rescues 6-Foot Python From Blaze: 'I Would Do It For Any Creature'

AP
Posted: 03/31/2014 4:37 pm EDT Updated: 03/31/2014 4:59 pm EDT

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A firefighter put his reptile-handling experience to good use when he rescued a 6-foot-long python from a burning home in western Michigan.

Muskegon firefighter Scott Hemmelsbach told The Muskegon Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1jQ2Vbf ) that he reluctantly agreed to enter the two-story, smoke-filled house Sunday night to retrieve the snake. He says he cradled the "weighty" snake before carrying it to safety.

"It was trying to crawl up the side of his terrarium and get out," Hemmelsbach said. "His face was pushed up on the screen and trying to get out. There was a lot of smoke and he was trapped."

The firefighter said he learned how to handle snakes while he was at Grand Haven High School, where he helped showcase them.

Read more & see photo @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/31/firefighter-rescues-python_n_5065142.html?1396298294&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000044

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1. Peewee agrees!

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2. Agree and kudos to Hemmelsback

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3. Good thing they didn't send...

...this guy.

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4. Kudos to that firefighter. I love snakes.

I used to have two 7-foot boa constrictors. They are great pets. They don't bark or shit on the carpet, but will occasionally bite. I had to get rid of them because they were getting too expensive to feed, and they would only eat live rats.