But the 18-foot python that firefighters had to drag out of a burning Rhode Island home just after midnight Monday may have been a first. Acting Chief Peter Henrikson tells The Providence Journal that it took two firefighters to carry out the python with a diameter like a "Frisbee" in the middle. The home's sole occupant managed to escape on his own and brought out his two dogs and a cat. Henrikson says he hates snakes and wouldn't go near it. He says it appears the fire started where the pipe of a wood stove met the wall. The East Greenwich house was condemned.