Seconds after veteran Big Cat Rescue volunteer Candy Couser almost had her arm severed by tiger Kimba, Carole Baskin said her team jumped into action to save one of their own. Several staffers helped pulled Couser back to safety and used a belt as a tourniquet. They then "packed her arm in ice packs to try and save it" until the ambulance arrived, Baskin explained to BuzzFeed News.

Once Couser was en route to the nearest hospital, with what Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokesperson Eric Seidel described to BuzzFeed as a "serious injury," the volunteer "insisted that she did not want Kimba Tiger to come to any harm for this mistake." As a safety protocol, Kimba will be quarantined for the next 30 days because he "was just acting normal due to the presence of food and the opportunity," Baskin noted. As of this writing, there are no further details about Couser's condition and whether or not the doctors were able to save her limb. 

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