reported by ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\nFirefighters had to create a wider opening to the water tank for the ladder to go down. LAFD<\/p>\n
A mother bear and two cubs were rescued by the firefighters while one cub had managed to escape on its own. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife<\/p>\n
Firefighters quickly launched \u201cOperation Care Bear\u201d to save the family, who had been stuck inside the dark concrete structure for over 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Authorities believe that the bears were likely seeking water amid the hot and humid weather when they stumbled into the narrow, one-foot-wide opening on top of the cistern.<\/p>\n
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Before firefighters could act, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife drained the remaining water from the tank to prevent the animals from drowning. <\/p>\n
The original opening of the tank was far too small for first responders to enter or for the mother to squeeze through.<\/p>\n
The crew members used a power saw to cut a larger access hole into the side of the tank. They then lowered a ladder inside, creating a makeshift ramp for the bears to climb out.<\/p>\n
Firefighters put down a ladder into the tank for the bears to climb out. LAFD<\/p>\n
LAFD officers used a saw to widen the entry to the water tank. LAFD<\/p>\n
While one brave cub had managed to escape on its own earlier in the ordeal, the remaining three bears required a bit more coaxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were exhausted, so it took a few minutes for the first cub to come out, then the second cub got out, and then finally the mother,\u201d said LAFD\u2019s Keith Navarre, according to the news outlet. <\/p>\n
Authorities confirmed that the lone cub who had escaped earlier was also safely reunited with the rest of the family as they trotted back into the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mama bear and her three cubs made it out safely after being trapped for hours inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[46011,28480,4670,85,46,1900,44268,141,226,1865,386],"class_list":["post-602103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-rescue","tag-bears","tag-california","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-los-angeles","tag-metro","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-water","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602103","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=602103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}