After a fire started in the middle of the night at Forest Middle School in Virginia on August 13, killing a tortoise and damaging eight classrooms, officials have now named the suspected culprit: an 8 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female 8-foot python named Nanner has become an unlikely suspect in a central Virginia middle school fire, with officials saying ...

Authorities blamed Nanner for knocking over a heat fixture, but Brittany Jacobs contends it was trying to escape blaze ...

“I don’t think there was any maliciousness involved on the snake’s side,” the Bedford County fire marshal said of the incident Forest Fire Department/Facebook Teacher Brittany Jacobs denies her python ...

Jacobs says all reptiles were secured in locked tanks and heat fixtures were properly installed before the fire "I have never had an animal escape or have any lights/heat emitters cause any fire ...