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13-year-old Florida boy fights off alligator attack — and calls 911 himself

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Gabriel Klimis was swimming with his younger brother at Howell Creek in Winter Springs, Florida, when an alligator latched on to his right leg and tried to pull him under the water, he said.

A 13-year-old Florida boy shared how he bravely survived an alligator attack after realizing there was"no getting out" without fighting back.

"The gator kind of just grabbed me from there, and then once he wrapped his jaws on me, I knew that there was no getting out," Klimis told NBC News correspondent Sam Brock on TODAY on June 26. Paramedics took him to the hospital, where he received stitches for the wound and a bandage from his hip to his upper thigh.He is now recovering at home, but is not completely out of danger yet.

 

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