ALPHARETTA, GA \u2014 Residents in Alpharetta reported seeing a black bear near an elementary school and subdivision in north Fulton County.<\/p>\n
Alpharetta police said officers were called to the Lantern Ridge subdivision area near Alpharetta Elementary School after reports of a bear wandering nearby.<\/p>\n
Captain Jakai Braithwaite said officers were unable to locate the bear when they arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlpharetta Police Department became aware of a black bear that was reported in the Lantern Ridge subdivision area near Alpharetta Elementary School,\u201d Braithwaite said.<\/p>\n
Police are now urging residents to closely watch children and pets if they are outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cBe careful, supervise your children outside playing, make sure you know what\u2019s going on; supervise your pets out there,\u201d Braithwaite said.<\/p>\n
Braithwaite also warned residents not to approach the animal or attempt to take photos with it if they see it again.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely avoid approaching animals, we\u2019ve heard that before, people try to get close to them, or take a photograph with them, we tell you to definitely stay away from that,\u201d Braithwaite said.<\/p>\n
Braithwaite said construction activity in the area could be contributing to the recent bear sightings.<\/p>\n
WSB Radio\u2019s Michelle Wright contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALPHARETTA, GA \u2014 Residents in Alpharetta reported seeing a black bear near an elementary school and subdivision in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14144,1147,7438,1979,6470,1980,16638,12228,10333,103,45386,121755,283147,61253,54904,10111,32681,6036,63587,7221,6632,45718,79,44489,45717,23132,201,44088],"class_list":["post-656982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-animals","tag-bear","tag-big","tag-biodiversity","tag-black","tag-black-bear","tag-brown","tag-brown-bear","tag-canada","tag-canadian-wildlife","tag-carnivore","tag-claws","tag-cub","tag-danger","tag-dangerous","tag-forest","tag-fur","tag-mammal","tag-nature","tag-outdoors","tag-predator","tag-science","tag-wild","tag-wild-animal","tag-wilderness","tag-wildlife","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656982","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=656982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}