14, they intend to present a report for approval to city council with coyote management recommendations. The city said staff are also currently in “active discussions” with coyote wildlife management experts at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry to “collaborate on solutions for the Burlington community.” 10 release, said Smith “expressed sincere concern for the health and safety of our residents and is working with us to help address this serious risk to our community from these unprecedented and unprovoked attacks.” On Saturday, Meed Ward spoke with MP Graydon Smith, the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, about this ongoing situation. “These attacks are uncharacteristic of coyotes and this cluster of attacks on humans are the first reported in Burlington,” said the city, which is also urging residents to continue to be vigilant and report any coyote sightings to them. In the meantime, anyone who is attacked by a coyote is advised to seek immediate medical attention and report the incident to Halton Region Health Department and Burlington Animal Services at or 90. We want to assure residents we’re taking immediate actions to protect our community, including convening a crisis team and a special council meeting this week to implement our action plan,” said Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward, who assured “regular updates to the community as we deal with this urgent situation.” “I join all of my colleagues on council in expressing our heartfelt distress to the resident attacked (Saturday) morning.
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They are also working with a Certified Wildlife Control Professional to “eliminate” it, the City of Burlington said. It ran across New Street into a neighbourhood, the city said.Īn employee at home saw what happened and ran out to check on the resident, who was taken to hospital by ambulance.Īnimal Services staff are currently patrolling the area to locate this coyote and its den. The victim was able to scare the coyote away. The city said the wild animal, which they described as a smaller sandy coloured coyote, was startled when the woman woke up, but tried approaching her again. when she “awoke to the pain of the coyote biting her in the hip area.” In a news release, the city said a woman was relaxing on a chair on her front patio at about 8:20 a.m. The latest incident happened Saturday at a retirement home on New Street in the Roseland area. He likes to hike, bike and spend time with his family.The City of Burlington has launched a “crisis management team” following six recent unprovoked coyote attacks against area residents. He attended California State University, Fullerton, where he graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Photo Communication. Gritchen served as the Director of Region 10 of the National Press Photographer Association from 1999 to 2005. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award. In 2016 he traveled to China to document the opening of Disney’s newest theme park in Shanghai. In 2008 he traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl as she traveled to the U.S. In 2005 he covered the destruction of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Gritchen has covered everything from the large Cambodian community in Long Beach to a few NBA Championships and a World Series. In 1994 he started working for the company that would eventually become the Southern California News Group - first at The Orange County Register, then the Long Beach Press-Telegram, then back to Orange County. Jeff Gritchen started his career working for the American Red Cross as a disaster relief photographer 1989.
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