Florida Woman Loses Arm in 9-Foot-8-Inch Alligator Attack as Silver River Reopens
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Updated · FOX 35 Orlando · Aug 10
Florida Woman Loses Arm in 9-Foot-8-Inch Alligator Attack as Silver River Reopens
3 articles · Updated · FOX 35 Orlando · Aug 10
Summary
A Florida woman is recovering at home after a Silver River alligator attack led to a traumatic right-arm amputation, with her family saying a nearby boater's rapid response saved her life.
Saturday afternoon, the woman tried to push the alligator away with a paddle before it grabbed her arm and pulled her underwater among a group of swimmers in the springs.
John Gamache and his father raced their boat toward the swimmers, and Gamache used a rope as a tourniquet after the alligator released her and the boat's commotion drove it off.
FWC officers and a contracted trapper removed a 9-foot-8-inch alligator from the area Sunday, after Marion County temporarily closed the river during the search.
Silver River has since reopened, as the attack adds to several Central Florida alligator incidents since June, including one fatal case.