A Miami-Dade employee was hospitalized after she was attacked by two dogs Tuesday morning in an incident that was caught on camera.
The incident occurred in a neighborhood in the 200 block of Southwest 9th Avenue in the City of Miami.
Video showed the employee being knocked to the ground as she's attacked by the two dogs. Another woman is seen jumping in to help and grabbing a traffic cone to try to keep the dogs away.
At one point, a man on a balcony shouts to the employee, "jump in the car, jump in the car!"
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The employee was able to get into her car as the dogs ran away.
NBC6 spoke with a young man who lives at the home with his parents.
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“There's a mailbox she can put it in but she decided to open the gate because we always leave that gate closed because the dogs get excited," he said.
The young man says his mom heard someone open the gate and came outside and the dogs followed her. He believes the woman didn't close the gate behind her, but says their dogs have never attacked anyone before.
The young man was visibly emotional as his dogs were put into the back of the Animal Control truck.
A woman and her son who live across the street heard the screams and looked on from their balcony. She says it's not the first time she's seen the dogs roam free.
"Not even a warning sign they just let them free," she said. "It's not right to have big dogs like that, loose."
Miami-Dade County Animal Services officials said the employee was a court support specialist who was serving an eviction notice.
Miami Police officials said the victim was bitten in the ear and the buttocks in the dog attack.
The victim was transported to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she was in stable condition, Miami Fire Rescue officials said. Her identity wasn't released.
Miami-Dade Animal Services dispatched an animal welfare officer to the scene, and the owner of the two American Bulldogs involved in the incident gave Animal Services temporary custody of the dogs to serve the mandatory quarantine. Animal Services is conducting an animal bite investigation.
Police later said there was no criminal aspect to the incident.
