{"id":173664,"date":"2025-09-22T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173664\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:32:08","slug":"bear-enters-home-takes-food-and-leaves-in-simsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173664\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear enters home, takes food, and leaves in Simsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIMSBURY, CT (WFSB) &#8211; A bear went inside a home in Simsbury on Sunday evening, according to the Department of Energy &amp; Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DEEP said the bear entered the house through a pushed out A\/C window unit or a door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to DEEP, the bear got in, took food, and left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There was one person in the house at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said they were unharmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cAs we enter the fall, bears become more active as they prepare for the winter denning season. Information on best practices to reduce the likelihood of a human-bear conflict is available on the DEEP website <a href=\"https:\/\/links.us1.defend.egress.com\/Warning?crId=68d0a83342324d240437cdfe&amp;Domain=gray.tv&amp;Threat=eNpzrShJLcpLzAEADmkDRA%3D%3D&amp;Lang=en&amp;Base64Url=eNodysENwCAIAMCJkH-3QUQlJdUI0fWbeO_rEdMfxDlWkCWO1MbGIjLxqBXTKpiFlmN0gUyu7DAqmG79GhyNDtmIX7jrB5iSHXw%3D&amp;@OriginalLink=portal.ct.gov\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/links.us1.defend.egress.com\/Warning?crId=68d0a83342324d240437cdfe&amp;Domain=gray.tv&amp;Threat=eNpzrShJLcpLzAEADmkDRA%3D%3D&amp;Lang=en&amp;Base64Url=eNodysENwCAIAMCJkH-3QUQlJdUI0fWbeO_rEdMfxDlWkCWO1MbGIjLxqBXTKpiFlmN0gUyu7DAqmG79GhyNDtmIX7jrB5iSHXw%3D&amp;@OriginalLink=portal.ct.gov\">HERE<\/a>,\u201d said DEEP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIMSBURY, CT (WFSB) &#8211; A bear went inside a home in Simsbury on Sunday evening, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[103627,103628,103630,103626,103629,79,103624,103625,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-173664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bear-enters-home","9":"tag-bear-in-home-ct","10":"tag-bear-in-simsbury-house","11":"tag-bears-in-simsbury","12":"tag-ct-bears","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-simsbury","15":"tag-simsbury-bear","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}