An alligator attacked a woman out for a holiday weekend swim in a Florida lake, leaving her seriously injured and having to be airlifted to a local hospital, officials said.
The 26-year-old woman, whom authorities identified as Nichole A. Tillman of Melbourne, Florida, was swimming on Saturday afternoon at Key Lake Wilderness Park in Cocoa, on the state's eastern coast, when she was attacked suddenly by an 8-foot-6-inch long gator.
Rescuers who rushed to help Tillman put her on an all-terrain vehicle and drove her a couple of miles out of the woods to a nearby road, where she was loaded into a medical helicopter and flown to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, officials said. Officials did not release information on the extent of her injuries, only calling them"significant." The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said only that they were"non-life threatening."
"I mean, it's scary," Nygard said."Just thankful a little kid wasn't in the lake at the time, because more or less the gator probably would've gotten the kid.""Several people grabbed towels and shirts and wrapped her side and leg and then they rushed her up here to the [road]," he said."Not very often," Uzel said."As far as alligator bites, I think this was the second in 35 years.
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