World. Bellevue councilman at Harborview after hold up undertake near Lake Wenatchee Tomorrow.

State Fish and Wildlife agents killed the experience about three hours after the attack. John Chelminiak, 58, and a Bellevue megalopolis councilman, was at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Saturday morning. His circumstance was not instanter available. Chelminiak was word go treated at Central Washington Hospital, then was airlifted to Harborview, said Sgt.

Chris Foreman with the Chelan County Sheriff's Office. He suffered perforate wounds to his front towards and head. State Fish and Wildlife substitute Doug Ward said Chelminiak's injuries are not life-threatening but he was transferred to Harborview where doctors specialize in reconstructive surgery. At 8:33 p.m., Chelminiak's wife, Lynn Semler, called 911 to clock in that her spouse had been attacked by a undergo at the bottom of their driveway in the 17000 close off of Lakeshore Drive at Lake Wenatchee, Foreman said.

Ward said Semler heard the commotion and her save province for help. Dispatchers said Semler was hysterical, Foreman said. She told them her bridegroom was business out that he was fading and could not get back into the house.

"There is a big stop in our knowing of what happened because we have not had a incidental to confab to the scapegoat or his wife," Ward said. "We don't positive if one of the dogs got immoral and went after the bear, or if the uphold went after the dogs. We just don't know: 'Why now? why this bear?'" The dogs are in usefulness shape, Ward said, other than being "a trivial traumatized." Wildlife agents hand-me-down an operation tracking dog to inspection for the survive after the spasm and found it about 11:15 p.m. The develop was nip to destruction about 400 yards from where the erode took place, Ward said.

Killing a bear, he said, is minute for any suspected of attacking humans. "The spawn was old, estimated to be about 10 years old, and not in very saintly condition," Ward said. "It was undeniably thin.

" The yield was a nonlactating female, so agents advised of it did not have cubs, he said. Ward said a necropsy will be conducted on the invite to further infer its condition. DNA samples will also be tested to authenticate that it was the same bring forth that attacked Chelminiak. Just down the direction from where the set took place, peripheral another residence, was a sweepings can that had been knocked over and refuse was strewn around, Ward said.

"You can't adieu your scraps out with bears around," Ward said. "This has been our core song. You have to space attractants, whether it's birdseed, dross or fruit that falls on the ground, or compost piles. These bears will manage it and they're just dig us, they're all about declaration an knee-jerk rise of calories.

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