A child is recovering after deputies say they were bitten by an alligator while swimming in a Florida nature preserve on Labor Day.
According to information provided by the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to reports of an incident involving an alligator within the Weeki Wachee Preserve on Florida’s Gulf Coast north of Tampa on Monday afternoon.
The unidentified juvenile was bitten while swimming in the preserve, and deputies said the victim and several other juveniles became stranded on a sandbar…