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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Hot Snakes?” my pal said. “I totally loved that band. Are you going?” That’s been the standard comeback among friends who were club-age back during the 1980s and 90s, when San Diego’s ...

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; ...

SAN DIEGO — Dick Schwenkmeyer was a teenager in the 1940s when he and a buddy caught a 5-foot-long, red diamond rattlesnake in a Del Cerro canyon and carried the reptile in their h… ...

SAN DIEGO — Weather officials are warning of dangerously hot conditions to begin the week in some areas. An excessive heat warning will be in effect Monday at 10 a.m. – Tuesday at 8 p.m. for ...

S AN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — When Lunar New Year kicks off on Jan. 29, events will be held throughout San Diego to mark the Year of the Snake in the Chinese and Vietnamese zodiac calendars.

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.