Iguanas are a common sight across South Florida.
They walk across busy streets. They hide under cars. They sun themselves near canals and lakes.
But a toilet doesn’t fall under the category of normal habitat.
On Thursday, a Fort Lauderdale man came home for lunch and went to the bathroom to find the green creature staring back at him.
“We are the end-all-be-all,” Gollan said when it comes to “unique” calls.
The crew on Engine 13, which serves parts on the beach, responded. Firefighter Jeff Kurus put on a sterile glove and reached in.
After fishing out the critter, he released it into the wild.
This isn’t the first time a lizard has crawled into a toilet. Or the second. In July 2017, a man took matters into his own hands and donned old ski gloves, a gas mask and a bulletproof vest and removed it himself.
A month before, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Venom One unit removed an iguana from a toilet in West Kendall.