{"id":331529,"date":"2025-12-05T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331529\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:36:08","slug":"california-department-of-fish-and-wildlife-seen-at-altadena-home-searching-for-bear-living-underneath-mans-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331529\/","title":{"rendered":"California Department of Fish and Wildlife seen at Altadena home searching for bear living underneath man&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Members of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were in Altadena Thursday afternoon, searching for a bear that&#8217;s been living underneath a man&#8217;s home for the past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AIR7 was over the scene as crews focused on the crawl space where the bear&#8217;s been spotted.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/18251489_CDFW-clean-TN-img.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ken Johnson, a local product photographer, first spotted the bear last week on his home surveillance camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I thought he&#8217;d be long gone by now. It&#8217;s unnerving,&#8221; he told Eyewitness News. &#8220;I think the longer he&#8217;s there, the more comfortable he&#8217;s going to be, and this won&#8217;t end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/altadena-man-finds-bear-living-crawl-space-underneath-home\/18234368\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE | Altadena man finds bear living in crawl space underneath home: &#8216;He&#8217;s been in and out all week&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Altadena man got a big surprise when he found a 500-pound bear had made the narrow crawl space under his home a den for the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Some residents believe the Eaton Fire destroyed the bear&#8217;s home, which is why it now roams their neighborhood looking for shelter and food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The size of the bear underneath his home, which is tagged, is what concerns Johnson. He&#8217;s working on a plan to draw the bear out of the crawl space then block the entrance with sandbags.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Members of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were in Altadena Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[167939,79,201],"class_list":["post-331529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-167939","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331529","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=331529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}