{"id":333343,"date":"2026-07-08T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333343\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:48:09","slug":"fl-man-fought-off-gator-using-fishing-pole-poking-its-eyes-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333343\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Man Fought Off Gator Using Fishing Pole, Poking Its Eyes: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old Brittany Clark was killed at the end of last month while swimming in the Econlockhatchee River in the Little Big Econ State Forest with her best friend and her boyfriend<\/p>\n<p>The gator bit her on the arms and performed a \u201cdeath roll\u201d on her, <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/across-fl\/woman-killed-bizarre-fl-alligator-attack-31-year-old-ca-native-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Patch reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old Rainbow River snorkeler <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/across-fl\/rainbow-river-snorkeler-hospitalized-alligator-attack-fl-sheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was also hospitalized last month following a gator attack.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy lost his hand after being bitten by a gator while fishing with his dad at Nelson Fish Camp in Marion County, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/boy-11-loses-hand-after-being-attacked-by-alligator-while-on-fishing-trip-with-dad-12013518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Alligator mating season begins each year in early April, first with courtship, followed by mating in May and June, the Florida Fish &amp; Wildlife Conservation Commission said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Brittany Clark was killed at the end of last month while swimming in the Econlockhatchee River&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-333343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333343","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=333343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}