{"id":252617,"date":"2026-04-05T06:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:51:36","slug":"mountain-lion-seen-roaming-through-merced-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252617\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion seen roaming through Merced neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByAlex Ruiz  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 3, 2026 1:03AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Mountain lion seen roaming through Merced neighborhood\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Merced community is on edge after a mountain lion was caught on camera roaming through a neighborhood on the north edge of town, just a few miles from UC Merced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ring camera footage was captured near Pickworth Court and Andrea Drive just after 4 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">El Capitan High School shared a message with parents urging them to be alert and use caution, adding that there are extra safety measures in place Thursday to keep students safe.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByAlex Ruiz Friday, April 3, 2026 1:03AM MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Merced community is on edge after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112155,55082,112,114,113,5389,36735,290,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-252617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-112155","9":"tag-caught-on-camera","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-merced","14":"tag-mountain-lion","15":"tag-neighborhood","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252617","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=252617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}