A Southern California woman has died after a rattlesnake bite, marking the second fatal snake bite in the state since the start of the year.
Emergency responders were dispatched to a trail in the Wildwood Regional Park area of Thousand Oaks for a “remote rescue” shortly before noon March 14, after reports that a female hiker had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Ventura County Fire Department spokesperson Andrew Dowd told SFGATE by phone that firefighters and paramedics responded by ground and air, deploying a helicopter through a joint sheriff-fire air unit while additional crews hiked into the trail to reach the hiker. Once they reached her, crews administered medical care before she was evacuated from the scene and flown to a nearby hospital…