Rescuers caught a snake in the elevator of an apartment building in Moscow

A snake was caught in the elevator of an apartment building in Moscow. This was reported on March 7 in the Telegram channel of the Moscow Department of Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Fire Safety.

The incident occurred in the Cheryomushki district of the capital. A resident of a house on Tsyurupa Street contacted the rescuers and reported that he had found a reptile about 30-40 cm long in the elevator. Life.ru . On the spot, rescuers found out that it was a striped snake no more than 20 cm long. The reptile turned out to be a milk snake — a non-venomous species of royal snake. She was carefully removed from the elevator and handed over to the specialists of the Department of Environmental Management and Environmental Protection, the website clarifies. kp.ru .

According to RIAMO, the snake was probably trying to escape from its owner, but could not get to the exit of the building.

On March 7, Sergei Burmistrov, head of the Wildlife Protection and Monitoring Department of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the capital, told the Moscow City News agency that the snake's condition was satisfactory.

At the end of February, another snake scared the residents of a house on Veernaya Street. The reptile, about a meter long, did not attack people, but it scared them anyway, once in the stairwell, he notes. 360.ru .