{"id":368247,"date":"2026-08-11T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368247\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:52:09","slug":"woman-bitten-by-alligator-while-swimming-in-silver-river-in-marion-county-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368247\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman bitten by alligator while swimming in Silver River in Marion County, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Trappers responded to the scene and later found and removed a 9-foot 8-inch long alligator, the FWC said.<\/p>\n<p>ByEmily Shapiro  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 11, 2026 9:22AM<\/p>\n<p>Watch ABC News live news stream and get 24\/7 latest, breaking news coverage, and live video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MARION COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; A woman survived after being bitten by an alligator while swimming in a river in Florida, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The woman was in the Silver River in Marion County, just south of Gainesville, when she was attacked on the arm on Saturday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Good Samaritans rescued her from the water and she was taken to a hospital, according to the FWC. Her condition was not clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED:<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/story\/woman-killed-alligator-swimming-floridas-econlockhatchee-river-officials\/19414560\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Woman killed by alligator while swimming in Florida river: Officials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trappers responded to the scene and later found and removed a 9-foot 8-inch long alligator, the FWC said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Silver River has since reopened to the public, county officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trappers responded to the scene and later found and removed a 9-foot 8-inch long alligator, the FWC said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149194,26768,28,30,29,478],"class_list":["post-368247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-149194","tag-abc-news","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368247","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=368247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}