A 6-year-old boy died six days after he was bit by a rattlesnake at Bluestem Prairies Open Space in Security-Widefield.
Around 8 p.m. on July 5, the boy was riding bikes on a trail with his father and younger sister when he got off his bike to look at a milemarker. On his way back, he encountered a rattlesnake and was bit, according to Security Fire Department Battalion Chief Derek Chambers.
The boy's father did not have his cell phone at the time and stopped a passerby to call 911. Crews with the Security Fire Department arrived roughly five minutes later and immediately called for a helicopter to take the boy to a hospital, according to Chambers. Instead, the boy was taken by ambulance to Colorado Springs Children's Hospital.
"Responding to kids is the worst part of our job. If it's anything that has to do with a kid, that automatically pushes us into a different demeanor, really," he said. Travis Sauder, Colorado Parks and Wildlife assistant area wildlife manager, says now is the peak activity time for rattlesnakes in Colorado.
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