{"id":297864,"date":"2026-06-05T23:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297864\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:49:23","slug":"wildlife-officers-investigate-raccoon-attack-in-north-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297864\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife officers investigate raccoon attack in North Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Wildlife officers are investigating after a woman was reportedly attacked by three raccoons in North Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The attack happened Thursday night in the Keystone neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said a resident had hired a professional trapper and had a nuisance raccoon trapped in a backyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe person went out to investigate because of the noise and to secure the area,\u201d North Miami Council Member Kevin Burns said. \u201cAnd as they were doing that, three additional raccoons came under the fence and attacked the individual, causing severe trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, raccoons are intelligent animals found throughout Florida. The agency says a panicked raccoon can bite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a large raccoon population,\u201d Burns said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Burns said he has received many emails from concerned residents following the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe advise people, along with FWC, don\u2019t feed the animals,\u201d Burns said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The injured woman is recovering at Ryder Trauma Center, where several FWC officers were seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, the agency said the county health department has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFWC Wildlife Assistance biologists will be providing the injured party and neighbors with technical assistance and guidance for prevention of further conflicts with raccoons,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Wildlife officers are investigating after a woman was reportedly attacked by three raccoons in North Miami.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-297864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}