Three bears were reported in separate locations in east Bakersfield Tuesday morning, as authorities locked down schools and prepared to send reverse-911 calls to residents within a five-mile swath.
Around 2 a.m. a caller reporter seeing a bear and her cub near the campus of Edison Middle School. That call launched an early-morning search that included deputies of the Kern Sheriff's office and wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The search was called off overnight until daybreak.
The school day was delayed at Orangewood Elementary to 9:45 a.m. and at Edison Middle School to 9:30 a.m.
Around 7:40 a.m. calls flooded the Emergency Communications Center with residents spotting three different bears in the 800 block of Vineland Road, the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive and near the intersection of Breckenridge Road and Comanche Drive.
17 News reporter Ryann Blackshere Vargas reported seeing the bear in a tree in the front yard of a home on Vineland Road.
The other bear sightings could not be immediately confirmed.
Around 2 a.m. a caller reporter seeing a bear and her cub near the campus of Edison Middle School. That call launched an early-morning search that included deputies of the Kern Sheriff's office and wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The search was called off overnight until daybreak.
The school day was delayed at Orangewood Elementary to 9:45 a.m. and at Edison Middle School to 9:30 a.m.
Around 7:40 a.m. calls flooded the Emergency Communications Center with residents spotting three different bears in the 800 block of Vineland Road, the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive and near the intersection of Breckenridge Road and Comanche Drive.
17 News reporter Ryann Blackshere Vargas reported seeing the bear in a tree in the front yard of a home on Vineland Road.
The other bear sightings could not be immediately confirmed.