{"id":702566,"date":"2026-06-13T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702566\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:38:08","slug":"bear-sighting-reported-in-rocky-hill-neighborhood-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702566\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear sighting reported in Rocky Hill neighborhood, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ROCKY HILL, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; A bear was spotted in Rocky Hill on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A resident reportedly saw the bear in the woodline near 950 Maple Street, according to the police department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the bear is not demonstrating any aggressive behavior, and there have been no reports of any threats to public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police are in contact with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to see whether any further action is necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents are reminded to avoid approaching or feeding wildlife, keep pets under control and secure any outdoor food sources or garbage containers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eyewitness News will provide more details as soon as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCKY HILL, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; A bear was spotted in Rocky Hill on Saturday. A resident reportedly saw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-702566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702566","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=702566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}