A brown bear was spotted running around northwest Fresno Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Video circulating on Thursday showed the bear running near Herndon and West avenues, around Minarets Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Watch: A driver filmed the bear in the street while driving on Minarets Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The big picture: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to calls about the bear and confirmed it was in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials ultimately searched the area for hours and believe the bear went back to the San Joaquin River.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re saying: Fresno City Councilman Mike Karbassi, who represents the area the bear was seen running in, urged people to call the Department of Fish and Wildlife at (559) 649-1125 if they ever encounter large wildlife, such as a bear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\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 & 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brown bear was spotted running around northwest Fresno Thursday morning.\u00a0 Video circulating on Thursday showed the bear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-305305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305305","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=305305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}