Once removed, the woman was decontaminated and transferred to EMS, according to the release ... Information about the number and type of snakes seen in the well was not available.

ORANGEBURG COUNTY, S.C. — Several agencies in Orangeburg County rescued a woman from a 16-foot well with snakes inside on Wednesday ... and transferred to EMS for further assessment.

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...