SALT LAKE CITY – Warmer weather can bring unwanted guests into backyards, and rattlesnakes are among the animals looking for shelter and shade.

The season is still early, but there have already been several reports of rattlesnake bites. Reptile Rescue is a non-profit organization that removes snakes free of charge, and they said they receive about a dozen calls each week.

“When food is more abundant you usually have more snakes, and we had a lot last year,” Jim Dix of Reptile Rescue said. “This year it is just starting to warm up, and we will start seeing an increase in snakes.”

Dix said a rattlesnake bite can be a very costly experience.

“The anti-venom is about $8,000 a vial, and they start you off with six vials,” he said. “$48,000 right off the bat with no hospital bill, so it’s an expensive lesson to learn. And even after you’ve been bit you can still have side effects.”

HERRIMAN, Utah – A field fire burned in Herriman on Friday afternoon.

The fire burned in the Rosecreek subdivision near 5790 West and 13750 South in Herriman.

The homeowner told FOX 13′s Caroline Connolly that she started a fire in her fire pit and winds picked it up, spreading it into the vegetation nearby.

The fire was located in an open space and didn’t damage any homes.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Legislature has appropriated $2 million to be used in a statewide “War on Weeds.”

According to the Utah Department of Agriculture, many counties in Utah are affected by non-native weeds that interfere with recreation, poison wildlife and livestock, displace productive farmland and contribute to wildfires.

In Wasatch County, weed control program workers are spraying for evasive weeds from a specially fitted rail car at the back of a train on the Heber Valley Railroad.

Invasive weeds cost Utahns millions of dollars in lost economic production and in firefighting costs, the Dept. of Agriculture said in a press release.

Citizens are encouraged to report sightings of invasive weeds at: http://www.eddmaps.org/mrwc/report/index.cfm