![]() ![]() But mostly, stay on the trails, and keep your eyes up and open. Some areas are more prone to having (snakes) than others, so pay attention to the signage. “If you’re out hiking, you won’t want to be on the grass or anywhere off the trail where you can’t see your feet,” Cal Fire spokesperson Josh Shifren said. Johnson is considered a bit of snake expert among Contra Costa County firefighters, but he’s hardly the only official who has signaled a warning to hikers to be aware of poisonous rattlesnakes. But it happens when it gets warm.”Īnd some of those snakes carry a rattle, he said. Sometimes, it’s where mud has been by a side of a road. Sometimes, that’s cement, sometimes that’s a driveway. “They’re gonna want to get to where it’s warm. ![]() “As it gets warm, the snakes will come out,” Darren Johnson, an assistant fire chief for the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Department in Contra Costa County, said. Rattlesnakes are part of the pit viper family of venomous snakes and they have “cousins” in the United States that don’t have rattles on their tails. ![]() As a precursor to the summer’s first intense warm-up, the National Weather Service on Thursday issued a Bay Area heat advisory that will kick in Friday and could last the whole weekend.īay Area fire officials were watching the heat with concern, as well, though a slow start to the state’s fire season allowed them to focus on one other potential problem. ![]()
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