Waiting hopelessly for rescue after alligator attack, Brittany Clark uttered final heartbreaking words that shattered her boyfriend
Brittany Clark’s heartbreaking dying words as she waited to be rescued after alligator attack leave everyone shaken
MIAMI – Brittany Clark’s devastated boyfriend has revealed the heartbreaking request she made in her dying moments after being viscously attacked by a giant gator in Florida last weekend.
Clark, a 31-year-old “bad a–” bulldozer-driver and animal lover, used her some of her final breaths to ask her beau Chance Allison to look after her German Shepherd, Hokie, who was with them at Little Big Econ State Forest in Central Florida when disaster struck.
“While we were waiting for emergency services to arrive Brittany just told me to make sure I took care of Hokie,” Allison, 30, told The Post Friday.
Alligator attack victim Brittany Clark’s devastated boyfriend has revealed one of the last things she told him as she bled out.Facebook/Chance Allison
“It was one of the last things she said to me. I can’t recall anything else,” said the distraught partner, who also brough his Pitbull-mix, Bulma, along for the hiking trip.
The duo, joined by Clark’s roommate Jayden Hernandez were in about 3-feet of water in the Econlockhatchee River when a 13-foot alligator crept up “out of absolutely nowhere” and grabbed ahold of Clark.
“We were smiling and talking and then it was complete chaos,” said Allison.
Clark’s arms were ripped off by the gator, and Allison desperately tried to wrench her from the beast as it sunk its jaws into his girlfriend.
Harrowing bodycam footage released on Thursday showed a Florida deputy’s desperate attempt to save Clark.
Clark’s boyfriend Allison said he is still in the process of making arrangements for Brittany’s funeral with her family and is also planning a celebration of life.Facebook/Brittany Clark
It showed the officer running through the brush and emerging at the sandy bank of the river.
Clark can be seen under a tent which Allison told The Post he used to protect her from the blistering Florida sunshine.
The couple had been making plans for their future together when tragedy unfolded.
Allison, who runs his own business transporting dumpsters, said he was speaking out to set the record straight about what happened that fateful day.
Brittany Clark’s arms were ripped apart by the massive gator Sunday during a trip with her boyfriend, Chance Allison, and roommate, Jayden Hernandez, as they were sitting in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest.Seminole county sheriff’s office
“I am in no way, shape or form wanting any of the attention out of this,” he said. “I just want the facts to be right.
“I keep seeing negative stuff about us and things that aren’t true that keep getting out there.
“It’s just kind of heartbreaking but people are going to think what they think.”
Allison denied claims made by an anonymous hiker that he had warned Clark’s group not to enter the water.
Harrowing bodycam footage released on Thursday showed a Florida deputy’s desperate attempt to save Clark.Facebook/Brittany Clark
“No one told us not to go in the water,” Allison said.
“We talked to one person on the way in and all he said that I heard was that he used to bring his dogs out here. I don’t know anything else that he said but that’s all I can recall.
“If he said it, it wasn’t vocal enough for us to catch it.”
He also clarified that he didn’t give Clark CPR, but instead focussed on trying to make her comfortable and on stemming the bleeding by using his hands and a towel to apply pressure to the wounds.
Allison desperately tried to wrench Clark from the 13-foot beast as it sunk its jaws into the 31-year-old.Facebook/Chance Allison
Allison also emphasized that his dogs were not in the water at the time of the attack, but were “near the water on the bank trying to fend off the gator and barking at it while me and Jayden dragged Brittany up the bank.”
Allison said he is in the process of making arrangements for Brittany’s funeral with her family and is also planning a celebration of life.
“She was an awesome chick, man,” he said. “Brittany was the most outgoing person and loved to be in the outdoors.
“Every weekend we would go on the water power boarding or kayaking or out in the boat. She made sure every weekend at least one of the days we were out on the water.”