Bruce Ireland fell in love with snakes as a boy and now spends afternoons and weekends rescuing rattlers from San Diego residential areas. San Diego snake wrangler aims to ease fear of reptiles ...

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) — It’s been a busy summer for firefighters in San Diego County – but not only in the ways you may think. Local agencies have been responding to a high number of snake ...

The top areas with snake sightings in San Diego County area are El Cajon, Spring Valley, Fallbrook, Escondido and San Diego. Here's a breakdown of the numbers: El Cajon — 190; ...

There are numerous businesses in San Diego County that offer snake removal for a price. But in Poway, handyman Patrick “Trapper Pat” Brady offers free training on how to safely remove snakes, ...

Snakes, encouraged by recent warm temperatures, have already emerged from burrows and rock crevices to hunt for prey throughout the county’s lower-elevation hillsides and canyons. Gopher snakes ...

The snake that slithered out of a toilet in an office building in downtown San Diego apparently belonged to a resident in the building and may have gone missing while hunting for water, officials ...

SAN DIEGO — A venomous snake bit a San Diego Zoo employee Monday afternoon, and paramedics took the staffer to a hospital. About 2 p.m., an African bush viper bit a wildlife care specialist who ...

"Although the San Diego Zoo cares for a number of venomous reptiles, incidents like this are very rare, and the snake was contained at all times with no risk of an escape," the zoo said.

24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are Snake catcher Dylan Cooper arrived that afternoon. Stein helped rake away mulch as Cooper bagged 102 pregnant and newborn snakes.

A San Diego Zoo employee was hospitalized Monday afternoon after being bitten by a venomous snake, according to reports. The incident occurred as the wildlife care specialist was caring for the ...