A snake that size, even if it wasn’t in good condition, could easily kill one of them if it caught them. The workers knew they had to trust each other. It became a team effort where even the people who had wanted to let the snake go, helped out.
When the vet finally arrived on the scene, the snake was still lying in the same spot where workers had kept it. But it became increasingly obvious that this would not be the case for long, as the snake had become very aggressive at this point.