The second black bear picked up the tenants in the crawl space of the house that was evacuated during the Eton fire, urging local frustration and fear about the furry creature’s destructive abilities.
The bears are comfortable, relaxing in the pool during the day and bringing food back to the crawl space from the neighbour’s trash at night.
“I think we took shelter under the house during the fire. It’s definitely not moving. That’s the house,” he said.
The bear has left a mark on a nearby trash can, tearing insulation from under the house, perhaps the culprit behind some broken fuses, a recent attack on a neighbor’s pet goat. I said. Lorenzini estimates it weighs between 500 and 600 pounds.
And he is not the only local resident who has discovered an unbearable problem when returning home after a fire.
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At the end of January, Altadena homeowners were unable to hold back their power because the crew were so scared of the 525-pound black bear that they had lived under the house. Officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were able to seduce it using peanut butter and rotisserie chicken and move it to the Angeles National Forest.
Now, Lorenzini is trying to get the same thing as an uninvited guest.
“I’m really sorry about this bear. I’m sympathetic to it because we know we’re invading their territory,” he said. “But at the same time, I have the property to protect, and if someone gets injured, I’m exposed. This is a wild animal.”
A spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Department said the agency knows about Pasadena Bear and is working on the response.
Lorenzini submitted a report on the bear on Thursday but said he didn’t know when fish and wildlife were planning to send crews to move. The agency told him that it was important to seal the crawl space once the bear was removed.
“In the hilly areas of Bear Country, it is important to close the crawl space with bear material a few months before winter, and to disrupt the bear’s property by filling its property and causing damage,” the Fish and Wildlife Bureau said. I mentioned it in a post by Altadena Bear.
The creature’s tenant was a huge headache for Lorenzini, who was trying to renovate his home and deal with the stress of Eton’s fire.
His home sits on many things burned during the wildfires of 1993, and he says he is fortunate to save it this time.
“It’s a miracle that this time the wind shifted to its final moments and blew fire off our hills,” he said. “So we spare, but only changed by the wind fluke.”
He wants to move the bear, so he turns on the gas and heat, begins to evaluate the smoke, and begins to damage the bear his property endured.
The plumber is naturally reluctant to go under the house due to the bear’s presence and fix his gas.
Black Bears are not an unusual sight in the foothill communities of Altadena, Pasadena, Monrovia and Sierra Madre. It is possible that nearby bears were also seeking safe space when humans escaped the 14,100-acre Eaton fire.
A similar phenomenon has been observed in the lion population on Mount Malibu after the 2018 Woolsey Fire, when UCLA wildlife researchers recorded an increase in the number of drivers killed to escape from a nearly 100,000 acre burn zone. I did.
In general, the Fish and Wildlife Service cited the destruction of bear habitat and human infringement of animal territory as key factors driving the number of bears found in hill areas.
In particular, Sierra Madre has discovered that the bears are truly annoying. A three-square-mile city hidden bears under the southern tip of the Angeles National Forest, bear sightings could jump from 100 in 2020 to 380 in 2023.
Also, although trudans are usually associated with what comes from the deaths of one or zero human beings across the country, they are still dangerous to humans, pets and property.
In 2019, an 83-year-old homeless man was attacked by a black bear while sleeping at the foot of the San Gabriel Valley. Foothill residents complain about the bear breaking in and damaging the home.
