MIAMI — Terrifying 911 calls captured the frantic moments after a Florida mother was mauled by an alligator, leaving her arm “dangling off” during a family boating trip.
Dina Spann, 58, suffered devastating injuries to her right arm and left hand in the attack on Aug. 8 along the Silver River in Marion County, Florida.
“Somebody got bit by an alligator. I think her arm got bit — it’s dangling off,” a woman tells a 911 operator in two desperate emergency calls obtained by The Post.
“She lost half an arm,” the caller adds.
As bystanders scream and struggle to get Spann aboard a boat, the operator asks whether her arm has been amputated. “I think so,” the caller responds.
During a second 911 call, a woman can be heard crying and screaming as a man tells the operator they are on the Silver River.
“Her arm is gone,” the man says.
Spann’s son, Zach Guerrina, previously told The Post that his mother’s arm was left “hanging by a thread” after the alligator attack.
Guerrina said Spann, who is retired, fought back with her bare hands. She lost part of the ring finger on her left hand before the alligator clamped down on her right forearm.
“She wasn’t just letting it happen,” he said. “She was trying to hold its mouth shut, swimming to the top to get a breath of fresh air and keep it from biting her legs.
“It had her, but she said she was trying to make sure it didn’t get to her legs.”
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Trappers hired by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission removed a 9-foot, 8-inch alligator the day after the attack. The Silver River was then reopened to the public.
Guerrina, 38, a father of five who works as a carpenter, had left his mother in the river with two teenage relatives and his brother’s girlfriend just minutes before the alligator struck.
People nearby rushed to help. Guerrina said they used Spann’s bikini top and a rope as a tourniquet to slow the bleeding from her right arm.
Spann showed the extent of her injuries in a Facebook video posted in September. Her right arm had been amputated below the elbow, and part of the ring finger on her left hand was missing.
“The gator got a piece of me. It didn’t get the best of me,” she wrote.
The attack came only weeks after hiker Brittany Clark was killed by a 13-foot alligator while swimming in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest on June 28.
In another June incident, an 11-year-old boy lost his hand when an alligator attacked during a fishing trip with his father.
Brodie Terry, of Pennsylvania, was attacked in Marion County on June 27 by an 8-foot, 7-inch alligator as he prepared to release a fish into the water.
Last month, Steven Hamilton, 71, of Winter Garden, was killed by a 12-foot alligator while fishing from the shore of Lake Apopka, about 15 miles northwest of Orlando.
His autopsy found that he suffered “blunt force” injuries to his legs as the alligator dragged him toward the water before submerging him on Oct. 16.