{"id":106741,"date":"2025-08-30T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:41:13","slug":"bear-attack-causes-injuries-timminstoday-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106741\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear attack causes injuries &#8211; TimminsToday.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Sault Ste. Marie<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured by a bear in the area of Sault Ste. Marie\u00a0yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, the victims may have inadvertently come between a bear and its cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The pair sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to\u00a0the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The bear has yet to be located as of Thursday morning and the Ministry of Natural Resources is managing\u00a0the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Sault Police are reminding community members using walking trails to remain alert, keep dogs on a leash, and make plenty of noise while walking to alert bears to your presence so they can avoid you.<\/p>\n<p>Not every bear encounter is an emergency situation. Call 911 if the bear poses an immediate threat to personal safety and exhibits threatening or aggressive behaviour. For non-emergency encounters call the toll-free Bear Wise reporting line at 1-866-514-2327.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on preventing and reporting encounters with black bears please visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/prevent-bear-encounters-bear-wise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Sault Ste. Marie Two people were injured by a bear in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,60796,66,323],"class_list":["post-106741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sault-ste-marie-police-serviceministry-of-natural-resourcesbear-attack","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}