Bear claws 19-year-old's face and chest through window of Crestline home
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Darah Wood was approaching her 19-year-old son’s room early Monday when he stormed out with blood on his face.A nosebleed, she thought.But when she peeked into his room, she saw a large black bear trying to get in through a window.“The bear had reached in and clawed him,” she said in a phone interview.
“There were a few surface-level scratches on his stomach and chest, but he had really gotten his face.” She said she scared the bear away by screaming and banging a pot with a wooden spoon.California A California couple attacked by a bear outside their eastern Sierra Nevada home have survived the encounter after fighting off the animal with a water bottle and a hatchet, authorities said.Paramedics arrived and took her son, Kevin, who is autistic, to Loma Linda University Medical Center — a 39-minute drive from from their home in Crestline, a mountain community in San Bernardino County.Wood said the bear’s claws had opened her son’s upper-right lip and nostril, requiring stitches.
She said his mouth was swollen but that he was out of the hospital and recovering Wednesday.Although bear attacks are rare, the incident has rattled some residents in the small mountain community and sparked a probe by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.As part of their investigation, wildlife officers took a collection of potential DNA evidence from Kevin Wood and the residence and submitted the samples to a lab, the agency said in a written statement.“The DNA results have come back from the lab, and CDFW wildlife officers will now be attempting to capture the offending bear,” the agency said.
California A San Diego man said he felt lucky to be alive and recovering at home this week after surviving a grizzly bear attack at Glacier National Park on May 28.Darah Wood’s mother, Deena, said things could have been worse.
She said she and her family have lived at the Crestl...