A woman was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries after being attacked by a large dog in San Francisco, police said.<\/p>\n
The incident was reported around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday on the 500 block of Larkin Street, in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood just north of San Francisco City Hall.<\/p>\n
Police responded to the area for a report of a person being attacked by a dog. When officers arrived, they found an injured person and the attacking dog next to the victim, police said, adding officer separated the victim and dog.<\/p>\n
Police said officers restrained the dog until Animal Care and Control arrived to take it in custody. Video posted to the Citizen app show an officer yanking a dog away from the victim with a snare pole. Officer then immediately move in to help the woman.<\/p>\n
“Officers separated the victim and the dog,” police said in a news release. “Officers rendered aid to the victim and medics arrived on scene.”<\/p>\n
A witness said the dog had been wandering the streets off leash for a while before the attack. The dog is no longer alive, according to police.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries after being attacked by a large dog in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-457533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457533","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=457533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}