Global News published this video item, entitled “Bystander wrestles alligator after it attacks animal handler at children’s birthday party” – below is their description.
A guest at a reptile center in West Valley City, Utah jumped into an enclosure to rescue an animal trainer who was pulled in by an alligator at a children’s birthday party on Aug. 14, in a shocking video that was captured by the guest’s wife.
The video shows the reptile center employee attempting to guide the gator back into the water tank after it jumped to the platform. She signs a command for the alligator. The reptile then grabs her hand and begins pulling her into the tank.
Donnie Wiseman then jumps into the tank to wrestle the instructor’s hand away from the alligator’s jaws with the assistance of another guest. The handler remained calm as she directed the guest on what to do until they were both free.
The staff member was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, according to local media reports.
The territory of modern Utah has been inhabited by various indigenous groups for thousands of years, including the ancient Puebloans, the Navajo, and the Ute. The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive in the mid-16th century, though the region’s difficult geography and climate made it a peripheral part of New Spain and later Mexico.
Disputes between the dominant Mormon community and the federal government delayed Utah’s admission as a state; only after the outlawing of polygamy was it admitted as the 45th, in 1896.
A little more than half of all Utahns are Mormons, the vast majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which has its world headquarters in Salt Lake City. Utah is the only state where most of the population belongs to a single church. The LDS Church greatly influences Utahn culture, politics, and daily life, though since the 1990s the state has become more religiously diverse as well as secular.
The state has a highly diversified economy, with major sectors including transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, and mining and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation.
A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the “best state to live in the future” based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.
