August 18, 2001. An alligator attacks 14-year-old Edna Wilks as
she and a group of kids float on boogie boards. She is pulled under
and spun around "like a tornado." When she manages to
escape the grip of the alligator and surfaces, she discovers that
all of her friends have fled to the safety of shore. Everyone but
one - 14-year-old Amanda Valance. Amanda helps Edna, crippled by
a broken and bloody arm, onto the boogie board. She then pulls her
thirty feet to the shore, a distance that would have been too far
for her to reach on her own. Edna had lost so much blood that she
showed no blood pressure at the hospital. She narrowly survives
the attack.
Florida
teen escapes alligator's deathspin
Heroes
Among Us: Amanda Valance
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