A California family’s pet tortoise made a slow-speed getaway that was somehow just fast enough to escape a massive shed fire that broke out when a heat lamp tipped over. Leo, a 3-year-old female ...

It is difficult to watch. A sound-asleep tortoise is stuck in her home as it erupts into flames. Thanks to the fact that she ...

CCTV captures the moment a heat lamp fell into a tortoise’s enclosure – sparking a fire and causing the reptile to flee.

The quick escape of a stereotypically slow reptile from a shed fire is getting attention on social media. Leo, a female ...

Firefighters responded to a structure fire Saturday afternoon after a heating lamp sparked a fire in the basement, according to a post from Brookfield Fire and EMS on Facebook.

The Feb. 8 blaze in Fullerton, Calif. was caused by a heat lamp "gone rogue," according to the tortoise's owner Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Terry Phillip, the general curator for Reptile Gardens, said they've spent the few months trying to identify and implement ...