{"id":48796,"date":"2021-05-18T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48796"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:01:20","slug":"gator-chases-people-through-wendys-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/gator-chases-people-through-wendys-parking-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Gator chases people through Wendy\u2019s parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 7-foot alligator was captured while wandering around the parking lot of Lehigh Acres Health &amp; Rehab on Lee Blvd Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the Lehigh Acres Fire Department responded to the scene after reports of the gator chasing people in a nearby bank parking lot, according to <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In other <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Florida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Florida<\/a> news, we\u2019ll be experiencing a slightly delayed response time leaving Lehigh Acres Health &amp; Rehab ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9cPykAwxo8\">pic.twitter.com\/9cPykAwxo8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District (@LehighAcresFD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LehighAcresFD\/status\/1394377621098610697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office claim the alligator also chased people through a nearby Wendy\u2019s parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildlife officials said they believe the gator was just trying to go from one body of water to another in its journey across Lee Boulevard. No injuries were reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trapper is relocating the gator to a farm in LaBelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildlife officers administer a Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program (SNAP) to be proactive with complaints concerning specific alligators believed to pose a threat to people, pets or property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People with concerns about an alligator should call FWC\u2019s toll-free Nuisance Alligator Hotline at 866-FWC-GATOR (866-392-4286). When someone concerned about an alligator calls the Nuisance Alligator Hotline, officers will dispatch one of their contracted nuisance alligator trappers to resolve the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7-foot alligator was captured while wandering around the parking lot of Lehigh Acres Health &amp; Rehab on Lee Blvd Monday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48798,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48796\/revisions\/48798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}