Fire at a Mass. home started inside a snake enclosure in a bedroom

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Whitman firefighters knocked down a fire that started inside a snake enclosure at a two-story house Sunday night, the Whitman Fire Department said.
At around 10:45 p.m., the town's fire department learned of a house fire at 12 Morgan Road on the second floor, the department said in a statement.
The people living in the home evacuated the building before firefighters arrived, and told firefighters that the fire began in the second-floor bedroom, fire officials said.
Firefighters lined up at the front door of the second floor and found a small fire inside a pet snake enclosure, the department stated. They knocked out the flames, which had not spread to other rooms in the house.
The snake, a python, was not hurt in the fire and was removed from the home by Whitman firefighters, the department said. Firefighters gave the snake to its owners. By 1 a.m., firefighters cleared out.
'We're glad that no one was hurt as a result of this fire, including the pet snake,' Whitman Fire Chief Timothy Clancy said in the statement. 'We were able to quickly put out the flames before they spread elsewhere throughout the house, preventing further damage to the property, which is always good news.'
An initial investigation by Whitman fire officials and Massachusetts State Police determined that the people who lived there were home when they smelled smoke and found the fire, the statement read.
One person tried to knock out the flames with a fire extinguisher before closing the bedroom door and leaving with the other people, the department stated.
No one was hurt during the fire. Inspectors found that the home also had working smoke detectors.
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