Watch: Rattlesnake enters California home, traps residents upstairs [Video]

Sept. 4 (UPI) — A reptile wrangler was called to a California home where the family had barricaded themselves upstairs to hide from a deadly rattlesnake that found its way inside.

Ryan Jessup of Ryan’s Rattlesnake Rescue was summoned to a home in the Rosetta Canyon neighborhood of Lake Elsinore when family members discovered a 3-foot red diamond rattlesnake inside their house.

“The homeowners were stuck upstairs and had to use an app to unlock their doors for me to enter the home to capture the snake,” Jessup told KTLA-TV.

Jessup shared a video to his business’ Facebook page showing him using a grabber tool to remove the rattlesnake from the stairs inside the house.

The snake had apparently slithered into the home through a door that had been left open for the family’s dogs. He said the canines had luckily steered clear of the snake, and there were no injuries.