{"id":305278,"date":"2026-05-08T02:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:17:17","slug":"video-bear-spotted-in-fresno-neighborhood-near-herndon-and-west-avenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305278\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bear spotted in Fresno neighborhood, near Herndon and West avenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fresno Bee;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fresno Bee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-12\/37ec2ce0-5e8c-11ec-b1fb-0027018c0b4f.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Thu, May 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/27D41B6B021E39A73C1CFD5B1393183343C2F3178CE270C815A90A412DA9CA4B\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w976_h549;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Video: Bear spotted in Fresno neighborhood, near Herndon and West avenues<\/p>\n<p>A bear was spotted early Thursday morning in a residential neighborhood in northwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno City Councilman Mike Karbassi arrived late to Thursday\u2019s council meeting and announced he received a call from a resident in his district at around 7:15 a.m. that a bear was \u201con the loose\u201d on Isla Avenue, near Herndon and West avenues.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife sent a team to the neighborhood, but could not find the bear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA brown bear is not the usual visitor I have the pleasure of welcoming to District 2 in Northwest Fresno, but I am immensely grateful to the California Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife for their incredibly rapid response to the area to ensure the bear returned to a more appropriate habitat without causing any harm to residents or property,\u201d Karbassi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that if you ever encounter large wildlife such as this bear, to call the Department of Fish and Wildlife at 559-649-1125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, May 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM UTC Video: Bear spotted in Fresno neighborhood, near Herndon and West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[128591,15313,112,128590,114,113,1075,9145],"class_list":["post-305278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-department-of-fish-wildlife","tag-california-department-of-fish-and-wildlife","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city-councilman-mike-karbassi","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-northwest-fresno","tag-residential-neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305278","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=305278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}