INTERLACHEN, Fla. (AP) — Five dogs mauled a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service after her truck broke down alongside a highway in north Florida, officers stated.
Putnam County Sheriff’s deputies discovered the 61-year-old girl on the bottom when they arrived on the scene in Interlachen Lake Estates on Sunday afternoon, sheriff’s officers stated in a Facebook put up. They additionally discovered the dogs inside a fence at a close-by residence.
A close-by resident instructed deputies they heard the lady screaming for assist and noticed 5 dogs attacking her. Several neighbors tried pulling the dogs off the lady and one shot a gun into the air to scare the dogs away, the report stated.
Deputies began first assist on the lady, who was severely bleeding. They utilized tourniquets till a rescue unit arrived and took the lady to a hospital, officers stated.
The girl was then flown to a trauma heart in Gainesville, the place she was in important situation on Monday.
The county’s animal management unit took custody of the dogs.
An investigation is constant.