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Three injured in shark attacks at Florida beach

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Friday, June 7, 2024

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In Walton County, Florida, three shark attacks occurred on June 7. The first attack injured a 45-year-old woman, while the second and third left two teenagers injured.

Around 1:20 p.m. local time (1820 UTC), Elizabeth Foley of Virginia was swimming with her husband off Watersound Beach, near Founders Land. She was treated on-scene and then airlifted to HCA Fort Walton-Destin Hospital, reportedly "in critical condition." Her lower left arm had to be amputated.

After Foley's attack, Walton County Sheriff Mike Adkinson ordered the closure of local beaches but the order was not fully enacted by the time of the second and third attacks.

Around 3:00 p.m. local time (2000 UTC), around Rosemary Beach — roughly four miles east of where the first attack took place — Ann Blair Gribbin, her daughters Lulu (15) and Ellie (17) and friends were on vacation from Mountain Brook, Alabama. Lulu and her friends were on a sandbar in waist-high water, looking for sand dollars, when Lulu was bitten on her left hand and right leg. The Guardian reported "a man and a boy," noticing Lulu's injuries, "pulled her out of the water" and carried her to the shore. Ann, in a statement, claimed Lulu lost two-thirds of her blood. After receiving initial treatment from vacationing doctors, she was airlifted to Ascension Sacred Heart, where she was placed on a ventilator and underwent surgery. In her statement, Ann shared that Lulu's first words once coming off the ventilator and regaining consciousness were, "I made it."

Another teenager was also attacked around the same time and location as Lulu Gribbin.


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