Successor actor treated in hospital after being attacked by otters in the California River
successor Actor Crystal Finn required hospital treatment after being bitten by an otter while swimming in a river in Northern California.
Finn is among the latest victims in a string of extremely rare otter attacks.
Finn played ATN producer Lauren Pawson in the fourth season of the hit HBO series America Decides, opposite Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom Wambsgans.
“I felt something on my butt and on my leg,” said Finn, who was attacked while swimming in the Feather River near Plumas National Forest in July San Francisco Chronicles.
“I started looking around and screaming [the otters] appeared right in front of me. Then they dived and attacked me again.”
Finn, who also recently appeared alongside him will and grace Star Debra Messing in the Broadway play birthday candleswas treated for bite injuries at Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee.
“I could see the bites on my legs and I knew I had been bitten on the butt — that was the worst part but I couldn’t see it,” she said. “The bites really hurt.”
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She added that she didn’t see the otters in the part of the river she swam; Had she done so, however, she would not have expected an attack.
“If I had seen them, it probably wouldn’t have made me think,” she said. “I would have thought, ‘Oh, those cute river otters.'”
The news comes after a woman in Montana “got more stitches on my body than I can count” after being attacked by otters during a birthday celebration on the Jefferson River.
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Jen Royce called the otter, which inflicted lacerations on both ears, arms, hands, legs and an ankle, “vicious and unrelenting.” She was eventually airlifted to the hospital. Two of Royce’s friends with whom she was dating at the time also sustained minor injuries.
dr Martin Rosengreen, a doctor at Tahoe Forest Hospital, said that timeline that he and his colleagues had never seen a victim of an otter attack until they treated two patients in a matter of days this summer.
“After the first otter attack, I was like, ‘Wow, that was special,’ and two days later there was another one,” he said.
The timeline reports that Finn’s ordeal was likely due to torrential rains that pushed the Feather River to its highest level in decades.