Crews also rescued a dog, a cat, and a komodo dragon from the mobile home. Unfortunately, two cats died in the fire.

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.

This was only discovered in 2006, when a dragon called Flora mothered five baby dragons at Chester Zoo, despite never having been kept with a male. According to Joe Capon of London Zoo ...

An avid hunter, the Komodo dragon can hit 12 miles an hour in short ... In another incident an 83-year-old woman fought off a six-plus-footer with a homemade broom and well-placed kicks.