{"id":568950,"date":"2026-07-31T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/568950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:52:10","slug":"video-bear-climbs-utility-pole-outside-police-services-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/568950\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Bear climbs utility pole outside police services building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sault Ste. Marie Police are reminding residents to be bear wise after having a close encounter earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>A black bear climbed up a utility pole outside the Police Services Building on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers monitored the furry visitor from a safe distance.<\/p>\n<p>Once the bear made its way back down to the ground, it was given an escort back to\u00a0the woods.<\/p>\n<p>No people or bears were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Non-emergency bear encounters can be reported by calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/city-police-beat\/tel:1-866-514-2327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-866-514-2327<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s an immediate threat to the public, call 911.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/prevent-bear-encounters-bear-wise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bear Wise program<\/a> provides information on preventing conflicts with black bears, staying safe, and what to do if you encounter one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sault Ste. Marie Police are reminding residents to be bear wise after having a close encounter earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[257445,85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-568950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear-encounterbear-at-police-station","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}