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Months after a bear attack that nearly killed her, Anchorage resident Victoria Lytle was able to meet and thank her rescuers.
The 67-year-old retiree shared her story of that harrowing July day along a trail on the Anchorage Hillside during a small event at an Anchorage Fire Department station on Nov. 25, 2025. She was able to stand beside the first responders who kept her alive, shake their hands and give them hugs.
Members of the fire department hiked 2 miles into the Chugach mountains to try to find Lytle as she lay bleeding in the woods. The brown bear attack had left her with wounds to her jugular, arms, thigh and head.
It is “not very often” that emergency personnel get to meet the people they save, said Julie Condell, the 911 dispatcher who stayed on the phone with Lytle for close to 90 minutes while help arrived.
Read the full story: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2025/11/26/months-after-near-fatal-bear-attack-anchorage-woman-shares-her-story-and-meets-rescuers/
(Video by Marc Lester / ADN; story by Zachariah Hughes / ADN)