He quickly steered towards the group, but by the time he arrived, the alligator had released the woman.<\/p>\n
Footage from the shore where the woman was attacked. Photo \/ Roxanne Miller<\/p>\n
The injured swimmer was holding onto a paddleboard when Gamache reached her. Seeing the extent of her injuries, he used a rope from his boat as a tourniquet to slow the bleeding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a terrible injury, bones poking out, blood everywhere. Obviously, the minutes mattered,\u201d Gamache told the outlet.<\/p>\n
The father and son helped the remaining swimmers get on their boat before rushing to shore, where emergency responders were waiting. The woman was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
Her family later confirmed she survived the attack but required her arm to be amputated because of the severity of her injuries. She was discharged from hospital on Sunday and is recovering at home. It\u2019s unclear how much of her arm she lost.<\/p>\n
Authorities said a licensed trapper was called in to locate the alligator, which was found later that day. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers said the 9 foot, 8 inch alligator was removed.<\/p>\n
Florida has an estimated 1.3 million wild alligators living in all 67 counties, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n
Gamache said he later received a call from the woman\u2019s family expressing gratitude for his actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey called earlier and we talked for a while and it was heartwarming to hear them explain their emotions,\u201d Gamache told Fox.<\/p>\n
Brittany Clark was killed by an alligator on June 28. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n
The incident comes weeks after a fatal alligator attack in Florida on June 28.<\/p>\n
Brittany Clark, 31, was swimming in the Econlockhatchee River near Orlando when she was attacked by an alligator and later died from her injuries, People reported.<\/p>\n
An autopsy found she suffered devastating wounds, including near-complete amputations of both arms, with the medical examiner ruling her death was caused by injuries consistent with an alligator attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He quickly steered towards the group, but by the time he arrived, the alligator had released the woman.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,8087,15153,89,2109,2147,42,78,11517,5836,4754,43,9979,6739,53883,40,38,41,39,376,6123,102,1354],"class_list":["post-565832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-alligator","tag-arm","tag-attack","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-loses","tag-lost","tag-members","tag-news","tag-right","tag-river","tag-surviving","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-water","tag-while","tag-with","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}