Tortoises can be fast when they need to be!

Dramatic CCTV footage shows three-year-old tortoise Leo escaping her burning enclosure after a heat lamp sparked a fire in ...

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 ...

THIS is the nail-biting moment a pet tortoise makes an agonisingly slow escape to safety from her burning enclosure. The dramatic slow-mo dash was captured on a pet-cam while her loving owner was ...

This is the moment a tortoise made a dramatic getaway from her enclosure as it erupted into flames. Leo was sleeping in her shed when a rogue heat lamp fell over and set fire to the hay she was ...

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

Have you ever had the desire to own a real-life dinosaur? Well, obviously that’s not possible, but owning a tortoise is pretty darn close. I happen to be a proud tortoise father, and my guy’s a tiny ...