deserteagle71
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Also get SnakeBite911 on their phone; it is quick access to which hospitals stock antivenin. Small kids and venomous snakes are not a good combination and time will be of the essence.
Happened about 2 miles from my house. Family walking on a dirt road up a canyon and the little one was just being a kid, running here and there, when she got too close to a rattler crossing the road. Local hospital DID have antivenom but did not administer it. Apparently the emergency room doc decided she'd recover just fine without the antivenom...until it was too late. (This is a screenshot of the photo and headline from the local paper.)
They are everywhere around here. This one I shot on my steps:
Alongside a nearby road:
Came back from a hike and found this one had taken shelter from the desert sun in the shade of my Yamaha Kodiak: