I have a Fire Salamander here haha. Although I received him from a friend who was relocating out of the country. According to him its about 6 years old.
I adopted mine. He was in an aquarium at petco since he came in as a water dog. He was there 2 weeks and then morphed. They left him in one of the submerged tanks. Poor guy was clinging to a plastic plant to get air at the surface. I told the manager in charge that he'd die if left like that. The manager wrote him off as deceased and sent him home with me.
Wow sounds like he was lucky you got there in time! Hard to believe no one else tried to help him or point out to the manager that it was gonna die....