'I just got bit by a gator': 13-year-old boy attacked by alligator, calls 911 himself

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. --

A 13-year-old boy was lucky to survive an alligator attack, fighting back when the hungry gator took a bite out of him. "I just felt something like tug on to me, and wrap its jaw around me and gain grip of me," Gabriel Klimis said.Gabriel said he was walking along a creek in Winter Springs, Florida, with a few friends on Tuesday evening after a swim. That's when the gator suddenly lunged toward him.Thinking fast, Gabriel grabbed a stick nearby. He fought to pull himself out of the gator's jaws.

"Just try to get myself up as quickly as possible and make sure that nothing worse happens," Gabriel said.Man dragged 75 feet by bear in Arizona, killed in unprovoked attack; bear shot dead by neighbor"He got up and we saw that he had a gator bite, and everyone was in shock. I was freaking out, and I was crying," said Judah Klimis, Gabriel's brother."It feels like good luck. I can still walk and stuff.

"I just broke down crying on my lunch hour," said Allison, Gabriel's mother. "When, also, I saw the pictures of the size of the gator that tried to get my son. And, I knew it was an absolute miracle of God that he's alive."

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