Fire crews find python in Toronto apartment

By News Staff

Posted February 14, 2012 2:11 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A cat and a python were rescued from a west-end apartment fire Tuesday morning.

Fire crews were called to a seventh floor unit of a building on Lakeshore Drive, near Lakeshore Boulevard and Islington.

When they arrived, firefighters discovered smoke and the pets inside.

Animal services says an Albino Burmese python was in a tank and was not roaming free.

The fire caused minimal damage to the unit, which police believe housed a grow-op.

    
   

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