{"id":710469,"date":"2026-06-18T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710469\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:50:09","slug":"mountain-lion-spotted-roaming-in-hanford-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710469\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion spotted roaming in Hanford neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiana Raymondo Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/17934364_100325-kfsn-Kiana-Raymondo-bio-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, June 17, 2026 9:40PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC30 Central CA | Action News\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A mountain lion has been seen roaming around a Hanford neighborhood throughout the day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to Hanford police, they have received numerous calls about a mountain lion in the city and have contacted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife about the reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An ABC30 insider shared security footage of the mountain lion in their front yard on Merritt Street between Centennial Drive and 12th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Authorities ask residents who see the mountain lion in their area to keep their distance, move indoors, and call the Hanford Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, June 17, 2026 9:40PM HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A mountain lion has been seen roaming around a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[306405,41090,306404,2354,22947,1583,4752,6273,79,226530,22645,237,201],"class_list":["post-710469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-306405","tag-california-department-of-fish-and-wildlife","tag-hanford","tag-mountain-lion","tag-neighborhood","tag-police","tag-public-safety","tag-residents","tag-science","tag-security-footage","tag-sighting","tag-timely","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710469","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=710469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}