Alligator attack on Florida mom sparks panicked 911 call: 'Her arm is gone'

Newly released 911 calls capture the frantic aftermath of an alligator attack that left a Florida woman with severe injuries, according to reports.The attack occurred as Dina Spann, 58, was swimming with a group in Florida's Silver River near Ray Wayside Park in Marion County over the summer.Spann survived the attack but lost her right arm below the elbow and part of a finger on her left hand.FLORIDA DAD MAKES FINAL FACETIME CALL TO WIFE BEFORE DYING IN FLASH FLOODAudio of two 911 calls obtained by The New York Post captured the frantic moments after the attack, including witnesses describing Spann's severe injuries."Somebody got bit by an alligator, I think her arm got bit — it’s dangling off," one woman said in the call, the Post said."She lost half an arm."Dina Spann, 58, lost her right arm below the elbow and part of a finger on her left hand after an alligator attack in Florida.

(Dina Spann via Facebook)In another 911 call, a woman can be heard screaming and crying as a man tells the dispatcher they are on the Silver River."Her arm is gone," the second 911 caller said.MOM OF 2 WHO DIED RESCUING SONS DURING BAHAMAS SNORKELING TRIP IS IDENTIFIEDFox News Digital reported on the August incident earlier this year. At the time, Spann's son, Zach Guerrina, told the Post his mother was trying to hold the alligator's jaws open so she could escape.Witnesses described a chaotic scene after an alligator attacked Dina Spann, seen above, in a Florida river.(Dina Spann via Facebook)"It had her, but she said she was trying to make sure it didn’t get to her legs," he said.Other eyewitnesses shared their accounts of the incident.CROCODILE ATTACK HORROR UNFOLDS AS COUPLE TRIES TO SAVE VICTIM: ‘WE FELT SO HELPLESS’A park visitor named John Gamache told FOX 35 Orlando he saw an alligator's "head way above the water and going full speed" toward the swimmers."Obviously, the minutes mattered."Gamache then rushed toward the swimmers in his boat.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OU...

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