One of the latest DC Fire and EMS hopefuls wasn't quite up to sssssnuff.

"Pete the Python," a multi-foot long snake, was found slithering around the DC Fire Training Academy building on Saturday, the agency said in a statement posted to social media.

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"Not meeting recruit standards, he is now with animal control," the agency statement reads.

Pete, as he was affectionately named by the D.C. firefighters that found him, is a ball python. The species is native to grassland in Central and Western Africa, not the D.C. area — but because the snakes are typically docile , they're often kept as pets.

That's why the agency believes Pete is a pet that someone set loose.

According to DC Fire and EMS spokesperson Vito Maggiolo,

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