SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- In California, some neighbors are on alert after a series of frightening attacks on people -- all perpetrated by a vicious squirrel. The injuries needed quick medical attention.

"It clamped onto my leg. The tail was flying up here. I was like, 'Get it off me, get off me!' I didn't want to touch it," said Joan Heblack.

It's the last thing Joan Heblack expected on her morning walk through Lucas Valley in San Rafael.

"It came out of nowhere. I didn't see him running up to me at all," Heblack said.

Heblack, suddenly attacked by a squirrel, which clawed and bit her legs. The wounds were bad enough that she went to the ER.

"Very scary. How do you get a squirrel attached to your leg off," Heblack said.

"This is beautiful, now it's following us, until she almost killed

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