California woman attacked by bear inside Lake Tahoe cabin says she's "incredibly lucky" to be alive
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A San Francisco Bay Area woman said she's lucky to be alive after a bear attacked her inside her family's cabin near California's famed Lake Tahoe. Laurel-Rose Von Hoffmann-Curzi suffered injuries to her face, chest and arms when a bear mauled her last weekend and she had to receive dozens of stitches, CBS station KPIX-TV reports.
"I am so incredibly lucky to be alive," she told the station at her Orinda home Wednesday. "I mean, no question."
It all started when she went to check out noises in the cabin's kitchen early Saturday morning, and she found the bear rummaging through the freezer.
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