{"id":151337,"date":"2026-01-27T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:56:08","slug":"san-francisco-issues-warning-as-mountain-lion-roams-city-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151337\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco issues warning as mountain lion roams city streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A young mountain lion has been spotted prowling the streets of downtown San Francisco as officials have warned people in the area to take caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management issued an alert late Monday evening saying that the mountain lion was spotted in the Pacific Heights neighborhood near the intersection of Octavia Street and Pacific Avenue, just north of Lafayette Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/man-dies-after-caught-avalanche-snowmobiling\/story?id=129155899\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MORE: Man dies after being caught in avalanche while snowmobiling;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MORE: Man dies after being caught in avalanche while snowmobiling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One man walking his dogs, who spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/video-mountain-lion-spotted-san-franciscos-pac-heights-neighborhood\/18482291\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC News\u2019 San Francisco station KGO;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ABC News\u2019 San Francisco station KGO<\/a>, said says he&#8217;ll be avoiding Lafayette Park for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We love to see things like this like so much wildlife in the city. But a little bit concerned because you know little puppies. So we are not coming in until we know everything is safe,&#8221; said Manuel Cases, San Francisco resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/minnesota-woman-dead-after-suspected-shark-attack-us\/story?id=129048362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MORE: Grandmother who died from shark attack in US Virgin Islands was &#039;genuinely kind&#039;: Neighbor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MORE: Grandmother who died from shark attack in US Virgin Islands was &#8216;genuinely kind&#8217;: Neighbor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City officials said, \u201cif you see the mountain lion, slowly back away, do not run\u201d and urged people to contact San Francisco\u2019s Animal Care &amp; Control if they see or come into contact with the animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young mountain lion has been spotted prowling the streets of downtown San Francisco as officials have warned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[36735,101,103,102,104,106,105,74775],"class_list":["post-151337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-mountain-lion","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-the-mountain-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}