14-foot python escaping California's Carr Fire gets loose on the streets of Redding
REDDING, California — Add a 14-foot python to all the disruptions being caused by the wildfire roaring in Northern California.
Sandra Dodge-Streich's 14-foot python got loose from a plastic bin being kept at a home in south Redding at about 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. Saturday, she said.
Dodge-Streich owns Redding Reptiles, which was evacuated from its store Thursday night, when the fire got to Redding. The store moved its snakes, geckos, bearded dragons, tortoises to Tortoise Acres in south Redding. But then they had to evacuate from there with their 130 reptiles, she said.
Since the deadly blaze, known as the Carr Fire, broke out, they've moved four times.
They were keeping Eres the python in a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic tub, but she got out. The snake probably won't go far, Dodge-Streich said.
Tey scouted the area but had no luck, so they took to social media to let people know their beloved pet python was on the loose and may be hanging out in their yards, she said.
Eres is a lavender albino reticulated python and about three inches in girth. Reticulated pythons are strong, Dodge-Streich said, and can scale fences.
But in Eres’ case, she might be looking for a place that’s dark, cool and damp, like a pool, or crevice under a deck. She might even be under a tarp.
“She’s beautiful. She’s not harmful,” Dodge-Streich said. "She’s not a big snake, she’s a long snake."
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