Serial Attacker Squirrel Puts Two People in the ER After Pouncing on Calif. Residents

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Residents in San Rafael, Calif. are telling their neighbors to be on a lookout for a squirrel that has been attacking people in their community

The incidents have been severe enough to send some to the hospital

“Now it's following us, until she almost killed me," Isabel Campoy said while showing her injuries

Some California residents are on high alert after a series of squirrel attacks have sent individuals to the emergency room.

Neighbors in San Rafael, Calif., told ABC7 on Monday, Sept. 22, they have been the target of mauling by a local squirrel. The city is approximately an hour north of San Francisco.

"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," Joan Heblack, who had been taking a mornin