SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A Seminole County man bitten by an alligator said his training as a paramedic helped him think quickly during the attack.Carsten Kieffer was alligator hunting on Lake Jesup last Thursday when he was bitten. “We saw the big gator laying up in the middle of the canal,” said Kieffer.
Kieffer said that he and another person on the boat work as paramedics for the City of Tavares Fire Department.“Unfortunately, since we were so shallow, he was able to push off the bottom and launch himself into the boat and that’s where he got a hold of my arm,” Kieffer said.
Florida Fish and Wildlife wrote in their report that Kieffer’s arm was “approximately three feet above water level.”“Once I felt him get a hold of my arm, and just.