{"id":3076,"date":"2025-07-25T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/firefighters-rescue-ball-python-snake-on-a-train\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:36:25","slug":"firefighters-rescue-ball-python-snake-on-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/firefighters-rescue-ball-python-snake-on-a-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue ball python snake on a train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-25 13:36:23<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Firefighters rescued an escaped ball python snake off a commuter train in Chicago.<BR><br \/>\nThe Oak Park Fire Department said in a Facebook post that its crews were called to the Harlem stop on the CTA Green Line to secure the slithery creature, named Lucius.<BR><br \/>\nThe snake &#8211; which was named after Lucius Malfoy, an antagonist in the Harry Potter book series &#8211; got loose from its owner and &#8220;entered a control box panel on the train&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe firefighters opened the box, secured Lucius and returned the snake to its owner.<BR><br \/>\nCaptioning a series of pictures from the rescue operation, Oak Park Fire Department wrote on July 21: &#8220;Sharing this tale of Lucius, the wayward snake on the train\u2026 <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This past Saturday evening, we were called to the Harlem stop on the CTA Green Line for assistance in securing a pet ball python snake. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The snake, named Lucius after the literary character Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter book series, had gotten free from its owner and entered a control box panel on the train. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We were able to open the box, secure the snake and return Lucius to a very appreciative pirate, his owner. Not a typical rescue, but a memorable one for sure!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-25 13:36:23 Firefighters rescued an escaped ball python snake off a commuter train in Chicago. The Oak Park Fire Department said in a Facebook post that its crews were called&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}