Listen: 911 Call Reveals Terror Of North Bend Cougar Attack

NORTH BEND, WA - The 911 call made by the victim of a cougar attack on Saturday in the mountains near North Bend reveals a frantic scene, with first responders unable to quickly locate the scene of the attack.

The calls were made in the minutes after by Isaac Sederbaum, who drove his bike away from the scene of the attack with severe injuries to find cellphone reception. After several attempts, he finally reaches a 911 operator, but was unable to provide them with his exact location.

"Help, I got attacked by a mountain lion," Sederbaum tells the 911 dispatcher. "I'm near Mt. Si."

Meanwhile, his mountain biking partner was being mauled by the cougar. S.J. Brooks, a pillar of the Seattle bicycling community, would later be found dead.

During his calls to 911, Sederbaum encounters a car driving along the forest service road. A person in the car successfully directs the 911 dispatchers up Bessemer Road in the Cascades foothills northeast of North Bend.

When police and wildlife officials got to the scene of the attack, the cougar was standing over Brooks' body. The animal ran up into a tree, and was later shot and killed by state wildlife officials. The male cougar was underweight and had below average fat stores, according to state officials.

Cougar attacks are very rare in Washington. Over the past 100 years, Brooks is only the second person to die in a cougar attack.

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