[FEL-L] Investigators probe killer tiger's escape at zoo

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Investigators probe killer tiger's escape at zoo
 
    *   Story Highlights  
    *   One zoo visitor killed, two others injured by escaped  tiger at San 
Francisco Zoo
    *   Survivors hospitalized but could be released as early as  Wednesday
    *   Police shoot escaped tiger to death 
    *   Report: Same tiger injured a zookeeper in attack last  year
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) --  Investigators on Wednesday will try to 
determine how a Siberian tiger escaped  from her enclosure at the San Francisco 
Zoo the day before, killing one zoo  visitor and mauling two others. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emergency personnel carry a San Francisco Zoo visitor attacked by an escaped  
tiger away on a stretcher. 


 
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Authorities planned a thorough sweep of the grounds to look  for clues they 
may have missed in the dark Tuesday evening, according to The  Associated 
Press. 
Police shot and killed the tiger, San Francisco Fire  Department Lt. Mindy 
Talmadge said. The surviving victims were transported to  San Francisco General 
Hospital, she said. 
Dr. Eric Isaacs said the two injured men, ages 19 and 23,  were in serious 
but stable condition with multiple lacerations. 
"I believe there was probably some blood loss at the zoo,  but here they are 
talking, they are alert, their vital signs are stable at this  time," Isaacs 
said 
He said that both could be released as early as Wednesday.  _Watch as the 
tiger's victims  are rushed to the hospital »_ 
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Talmadge said authorities were notified of an escaped tiger  about 15 minutes 
after the 78-year-old zoo's 5 p.m. PT closing time. 
"Apparently right around closing time -- there was a pen  with four tigers in 
it -- one of the tigers got out," Talmadge said. "The tiger  went into a cafe 
at the _zoo_ (http://topics.cnn.com/topics/zoos_and_aquariums)  and  attacked 
a patron. That person ended up dying at the scene." 
 
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Police arrived as the animal attacked two other patrons,  Talmadge said. 
"They shot the tiger, and the tiger is deceased," she  said. 
Talmadge said the 125-acre zoo was locked down and all the  facility's other 
animals were accounted for, including three other tigers that  had been in the 
same enclosure with the escaped animal. 
Initially, officials feared some or all of the other tigers  might have 
escaped but later determined they had not, Talmadge said. 
The tiger that escaped, a 300-pound female named Tatiana,  did not escape 
through an open door, Robert Jenkins, the zoo's director of  animal care and 
conservation, told the AP.  
Jenkins could not explain how the tiger got out, since the  enclosure has a 
15-foot moat and 20-foot walls, the AP reported. 
"There was no way out through the door," Jenkins told the  AP. "The animal 
appears to have climbed or otherwise leapt out of the  enclosure."  
The San Francisco Chronicle reported the tiger was the same  animal that 
chewed the flesh off a keeper's arm in an attack last December  during a public 
feeding demonstration. 
 
 

 




California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health  later determined 
that the zoo was at fault because of hazardous conditions in  the Lion House, 
which houses the zoo's large cats, and lack of specialized  safety training for 
employees, according to the Chronicle. The Lion House was  closed for more than 
six months after the mauling, the paper reported, and the  zoo made changes 
that the state safety division ordered. 
Along with Siberian tigers, an _endangered  species_ 
(http://topics.cnn.com/topics/endangered_species) , the zoo has rarer and smaller Sumatran tigers. 
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