( CNN ) -- It 's not being called a bear attack yet . But authorities are setting traps and scouring parts of central Florida for the animal that mauled a woman and left her face severely injured . The woman , identified as 54-year-old Susan Chalfant , was walking her dogs in Longwood when she was wounded . Her face bloodied , she rushed to the house of a neighbor , who called 911 . `` She thinks it was a bear , '' the neighbor said in the 911 call . `` How old is she ? '' the dispatched asked . `` I ca n't tell , '' the neighbor replied . `` She 's so bloodied , I ca n't tell . '' Authorities say the woman is resting in a hospital . Florida Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Karen Parker said officials are n't ready to call the case a bear `` attack '' yet because it 's not clear what led up to the incident . `` We 're calling it a bear incident simply because we simply do n't know what happened , '' Parker said . `` Bears are very , very elusive . They 're pretty much more afraid of you than you are of them , and normally when they see a human and they 've not been fed and have not been habituated -- they 're going to run away . They do n't want to encounter us any more than we want to encounter them . '' A common sight . Neighbors in Longwood , north of Orlando , say bears often roam through the area -- especially when looking for food thrown out by humans . `` There 's an actual walkway of the bears between my home and the immediate neighbor , '' said one resident , who only wanted to be identified as Richard . `` We see them on a regular basis , especially the nights before garbage pickups . '' Wildlife officials say if homeowners are n't careful with their trash , the bears will keep showing up . `` Unless we get the full cooperation with everybody in every neighborhood around here , the bears are going to come in for a free lunch , '' Parker said . Whose territory ? Unprovoked black bear attacks in Florida are extremely rare . The first one ever documented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was last year . The problem , biologists say , is that people are now living in areas that bears once called home . And bears like to roam . If wildlife officials catch a bear in the traps , they 'll try to determine if it 's the same one that injured the woman through DNA testing . If the results match up , the bear will likely be euthanized . 12-year-old bear attack survivor : ' I just thought I was going to die ' CNN 's John Couwels contributed to this report .
A woman walking her dog near Orlando was killed in a ` ` " incident '' Unprovoked black bear attacks in Florida are extremely rare . Neighbors say the attacks are common , especially before trash pickups . Biologists say people are now living in areas that bears once called home .