(CNN) — A woman was seriously injured in a bear attack just steps from her home in southern Alaska, a state where all three North American bear species roam and thrive.
At 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, the 36-year-old woman left her house for a jog in Kenai, a coastal city southwest of Anchorage, according to Alaska Wildlife Trooper’s dispatch .
She hadn’t gone more than 50 yards when a bear emerged from a neighboring property, Alaska Wildlife Trooper David Lorring told CNN affiliate KTUU . Without warning, the animal charged, dragging her roughly “100 yards down the road” and onto another property, Lorring said.
A neighbor discovered the injured woman before Kenai Police Department received a call at 6:58 a.m., according to dispatch records. Officers rushed her to a hospital in the Anchor