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esidents of Lenteng Agung subdistrict, Jagakarta district in South Jakarta were shocked to find more than a dozen snakes nesting in the plumbing system of a house, prompting the authorities to conduct an operation in search of more snakes.

The South Jakarta Fire and Rescue office captured at least 15 snakes from the reptile’s nest in a pipe under the house of a resident named Marsita.

Mursonip, the head of group A of the South Jakarta Fire and Rescue office said his team had captured the mother python on Monday morning, which was found in its nest in the plumbing system of a house on Jl. Haji Meran in Lenteng Agung subdistrict. His team was deployed following reports received at 4:15 a.m. on Monday that a large python was seen entering a water pipe.

“Residents had previously discovered the nest in which 14 snakelets had hatched. We then hunted for the mother,” Mursonip said as reported by beritajakarta.id on Monday.

Eight members of the team and two vehicles were deployed to the scene to remove the snakes.

He explained that the officials, with the help of residents and members of a local animal rescue group, faced hurdles to remove the mother as it was in a pipe 5 meters below the house’s ground floor.

The personnel had to dig through the floor to capture the 4-meter-long brown mother python with the remaining snakes found nesting in the plumbing system.

“Hopefully there are no more snakes in the area that could put residents at risk,” Mursonip added.

It was Marsita who first saw a baby python in front of her house over the weekend. She then told her family about the sighting. With the help of her neighbors, they examined her house to see if the snake was nesting near the vicinity.

Suspecting there was more than one snake nesting in the house, they contacted the South Jakarta Fire and Rescue office to remove the snakes as they feared their presence would endanger residents.

Another official from the South Jakarta Fire and Rescue office, Sukirno, said the snakelets had been found and removed on Friday.

“The snakes left their nest after being disturbed. Some tried to escape but we captured them,” he said as reported by tribunnews.com, noting that the 14 snakelets were about 40 centimeters long with an average diameter of two adult thumbs.

The snakes will later be handed over to the city’s natural resources conservation agency, according to a statement by the fire and rescue agency on Monday.