{"id":529551,"date":"2021-05-20T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529551"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:36:10","slug":"man-survives-bear-mauling-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-survives-bear-mauling-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Survives Bear Mauling In Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-survives-bear-mauling-in-alaska%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6BA4399D-A5E8-462C-9D6F-27702B1C39EA_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">A man in Alaska survived a bear mauling this week and said he feels \u201clucky\u201d to have lived through the ordeal, the third bear attack in the United States this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ak-state-wire-alaska-bears-health-environment-and-nature-dc9c002699a46cd79dea8d6ce205d7ad\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by the Associated Press, Allen Minish was by himself and surveying land for a real estate agent in a desolate area of Alaska when he encountered a large brown bear about 30 feet away from him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI saw him and he saw me at the same time, and it\u2019s scary,\u201d he said over the phone from the hospital to the outlet on Wednesday, a day after the bear mauling which he said lasted less than 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The outlet reported that the mauling resulted in Minish suffering \u201ca crushed jaw, a puncture wound in his scalp so deep the doctor told him he could see bone, lacerations, and many stitches after a 4.5-hour surgery. He also is wearing a patch over his right eye, saying the doctors are worried about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Minish, the bear was bigger than 300-pound black bears he has encountered. It charged towards him in a matter of seconds and as Minish attempted to escape by hiding behind small trees, the bear kept going through them. Minish pointed his surveying pole at the bear, but it knocked the object away, pushing Minish onto the ground.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAs he lunged up on top of me, I grabbed his lower jaw to pull him away,\u201d he said, adding that\u2019s how he suffered a puncture wound to his hand. \u201cBut he tossed me aside there, grabbed a quarter of my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe took a small bite and then he took a second bite, and the second bite is the one that broke the bones \u2026 and crushed my right cheek basically,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The bear let go and Minish put his face towards the ground and covered his head with his hands. After he did so, the bear simply walked away. Minish said he thinks the bear walked away because he did not think that Minish was a threat anymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI realized I was in pretty bad shape because I had all this blood everywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He dialed 911 on his phone and began to use his clothing to wrap around his head and stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt took a while to give them that because I had so much blood flowing into my eyes and on to the GPS, I kept having to wipe it all off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The process of getting Minish out of the area was a task in itself and rescue personnel attempted to carry him through the forest, but ended up helping him walk \u201ca quarter-mile through swamps, brush, and trees. From there, he was taken to a nearby airport and flown to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage by a medical helicopter. He is listed in good condition at Providence,\u201d per the outlet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Minish said that the one lesson he learned is that he should have had someone with him as he went into the woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI guess I feel lucky,\u201d Minish said, after someone told him his situation is better than not being alive.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn all honesty, it wouldn\u2019t have mattered either way. You know, if it killed me, it killed me. I had a good life; I\u2019m moving on. It didn\u2019t kill me, so now let\u2019s move on to the other direction of trying to stay alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is at least the third bear attack this year after recent attacks resulted in the death of two people. One woman was killed by a bear in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/03\/us\/bear-attack-colorado.html\"><span class=\"s1\">Colorado<\/span><\/a> while she was walking her dogs, and a backcountry guide was killed near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/19\/us\/grizzly-bear-attack-yellowstone.html\"><span class=\"s1\">Yellowstone National Park in Montana<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Alaska survived a bear mauling this week and said he feels \u201clucky\u201d to have lived through the ordeal, the third bear attack in the United States this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312473,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6BA4399D-A5E8-462C-9D6F-27702B1C39EA_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Survives Bear Mauling In Alaska","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6BA4399D-A5E8-462C-9D6F-27702B1C39EA_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Survives Bear Mauling In Alaska","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}