{"id":330293,"date":"2026-07-06T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330293\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:33:08","slug":"california-woman-killed-by-florida-alligator-in-bizarre-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330293\/","title":{"rendered":"California woman killed by Florida alligator in ‘bizarre accident’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 31-year-old Sacramento woman died after being mauled by an alligator in Florida.<\/p>\n

Brittany Clark died June 28 after the attack that happened on a hike with her boyfriend and a friend at Little Big Econ State Forest near Orlando. The incident occurred when Clark and her colleagues took a break to swim in the Econlockhatchee River near the Barr Street trailhead, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n

The alligator bit Clark on both arms as she swam in 3 feet of water.<\/p>\n

Her boyfriend, Chance Allison, called law enforcement, according to FWC spokesperson Chad Weber, who spoke at a news conference<\/a> Monday. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was trying to get her from the alligator\u2019s mouth,\u201d Weber said.<\/p>\n

Clark died from her injuries en route to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Wildlife officials caught and euthanized two alligators in the area, which measured 12 feet and 13 feet. Further testing is underway to determine which one was responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n

Weber also noted that mating season is coming to an end, when alligators become very territorial.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s family is currently requesting funds<\/a> to return her remains to California, labeling the death as \u201ca completely bizarre accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Clark was working for a construction company building roads in Florida. She was a graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Her boyfriend told NBC, \u201cShe loved her job where she operated a bulldozer running a dirt crew and loved going out on the water every chance she could. Never in a million years would we have seen this nightmare come about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her brother Nate Clark told KCRA that he has been \u201cin shambles\u201d after losing Clark, whom he considered \u201can amazing sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a very, very hard time believing that it was real life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Sacramento woman died after being mauled by an alligator in Florida. Brittany Clark died June 28…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15288,136437,53401,134428,136436,135729,1089,28,95459,30,29,14060,724,27602,2393,4103,69052,10166],"class_list":["post-330293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-attack","tag-bizarre-accident","tag-boyfriend","tag-brittany-clark","tag-california-woman","tag-chance-allison","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-florida-alligator","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-foot","tag-road","tag-route","tag-time","tag-water","tag-weber","tag-wildlife-conservation-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330293","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=330293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}