Weyarn: fire service because of grass snake

Created: 2022-08-19Updated: 2022-08-19 2:06 PM

By: Christian Masengarb

Weyarn: fire brigade due to grass snake © Symbolic photo: Armin Forster

The Weyarn fire brigade deployed with nine emergency services after a resident of Aiplsitzweg reported a queue in the basement.

She turned out to be a grass snake.

Weyarn – The Weyarn fire brigade was deployed on Friday at 11.55 a.m. with nine emergency services and a fire engine after a resident of a house on Aiplspitzweg noticed a snake in the basement and called the emergency number out of concern about a poisonous specimen.

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Weyarn: fire service because of grass snake

Arriving on site, the firefighters quickly gave the all-clear, according to Second Commander Daniel Arbinger: a grass snake had crawled under the tumble dryer.

This type of snake, which is common in Upper Bavaria, is completely harmless to humans.

Arbinger and his comrades brought the adder outside.

"We saved them and put them in their biotope," he says with a smile.

After 15 minutes they ended the operation.

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Arbinger does not look at the mission with only humor.

He and his colleagues have been trained to use poisonous snakes, he says.

“But you can always get a grass snake out of the house yourself” instead of alerting the fire brigade.

"It's always unfortunate when people don't know the local animals."

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