VIDEO: Phoenix firefighters got quite the surprise on Thursday when they responded to a fire at a house full of snakes, other reptiles and animals. Capt. Greg Hawk of the Phoenix Fire Department said he and other firefighters were “bit” with a big element of shock when they realized the home near 67th Avenue and Baseline Road was filled with hundreds of these creatures.
“It was honestly like a movie,” said Hawk said to Arizona's Family on Sunday. “It really hit us that we were walking around with snakes and lizards and everything else.”
Hawk continued with sharing some of the highlights of the bizarre mission.
“We were looking at each other, going ‘this is crazy!’ There were literally firefighters fighting fire, squirting water on the fire," he said. "And guys next to them picking up snakes and putting them in buckets trying to get them outside.”