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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:41 pm 
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Make sure to bring some snakeshot to this hotel.

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Woman in Rochester hotel bitten by snake
9/16/2009 10:10:37 AM
By Janice Gregorson
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN

Was it a python?

Possibly a rattlesnake?

Rochester firefighters weren't sure, but soon discovered they were dealing with a snake that slithered into the first-floor room at a local motel Tuesday night and bit a 67-year-old woman on the foot.

Fire Capt. Greg Neumann said they were called to the Super 8 at 1230 S. Broadway about 9 p.m. on a report of someone being ill.

"We had a whole bunch of things happening all at once,'' Neumann said, explaining they had a call about someone being ill, then a report of a woman bitten by a snake, possibly a python.

Meanwhile, he said, the snake-bite victim was worried about a female relative and wanted her to go to the hospital.

Neumann said that right before firefighters arrived, the snake apparently slithered under the doorway of the woman's room and bit her on the foot. Neumann said she was more concerned about her relative and rode with her in the ambulance to Saint Marys Hospital.

Snake killed

Firefighters and police caught and killed the snake, wrapped it in a towel and took it to the hospital. Neumann said hospital staff asked that the snake be brought in for identification, since no one knew what type of snake it was and there was speculation it could have been a python or rattlesnake.

Neumann said it was identified as a bull snake. He said it was 2 to 3 feet long. Bull snakes are found in this region, but aren't poisonous; however, they are often misidentified as rattlesnakes because of their coloring and because they vibrate their tails.

An assistant manager at Super 8, who declined to be identified, said the front desk person called 911 after getting a report the woman had been bitten. She said another guest of the hotel had been trying to capture the snake, which was in the hallway, when it slid into the woman's room.

"We called the ambulance and got her looked at,'' the assistant manager said. She said the woman, who is from Illinois, is doing fine.

Emergency response

The hotel official said the initial call to 911 was for the woman bitten by the snake, "but her relative was the one needing more care than she did. She was getting ready to call for help for the relative when this all happened."

The assistant manager also said the front desk person on duty Tuesday night was told by either police or a firefighter that the snake had to have been brought into the building and couldn't have gotten in through a door or other entry point.

Police Capt. Brian Winters said no police report was written, since it was not a criminal matter.

Neumann said the woman and her relative were here for medical appointments at Mayo Clinic.


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