{"id":350666,"date":"2026-06-07T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:01:08","slug":"daniel-crago-of-california-speaks-out-after-surviving-grizzly-bear-attack-at-glacier-national-park-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350666\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Crago of California speaks out after surviving grizzly bear attack at Glacier National Park in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN DIEGO (KABC) &#8212; A California man is recovering after surviving a grizzly bear attack at Glacier National Park in Montana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Daniel Crago of San Carlos said the attack happened shortly after he took a selfie during a hike. Minutes later, he noticed a bear cub passing nearby, followed by a larger grizzly positioned about 15 feet above him on a slope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I did as your told. I alert the bear so you don&#8217;t catch them by surprise,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Hey bear! Hey bear!&#8217; As soon as it looked right up at me, it charged me and leaped. You could hear the roar. I just stuck my arm up, and I kind of thought &#8230; this is it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bear latched onto Crago&#8217;s arm, crushing it, and dragged him more than 20 feet before releasing him. He suffered severe bleeding at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A friend and other hikers, including a doctor, quickly came to his aid. Crago was airlifted to a hospital, where he has undergone three surgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The attack comes about three weeks after a Florida hiker was killed in a suspected bear attack near the park. It is unclear whether the two incidents are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KABC) &#8212; A California man is recovering after surviving a grizzly bear attack at Glacier National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143431,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-350666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-143431","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}