GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A hiker died after he was bitten by a venomous snake in a Tennessee state park last week.

First responders were called to Savage Gulf State Park, in Grundy County, at Friday around 12:30 p.m. The hiker was about a half-mile down a trail when medics located him and began CPR, both manually and with a compression machine, according to the Grundy County Emergency Management Agency.

The hiker was transported to a local hospital where he later died.

A representative for Grundy County's Emergency Management Agency identified the snake that bit the hiker as a probable Timber rattlesnake, an extremely venomous species found in the eastern United States.

"The Timber Rattlesnake is the largest, and the most dangerous, of the 4 venomous snakes in Tennessee; it occurs

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