A black bear unexpectedly appeared on live television Sunday in Monrovia, a day after a bear swiped at a woman’s leg while she was walking her dog.
KTLA 5 reporter Erin Myers was doing a live report from the San Gabriel Valley community Sunday morning. She said residents of a home on Oakglade Drive had set up a trap to try to catch the bear that had been living in the crawl space underneath the residence.
As Myers spoke a bear appeared in the driveway in the background of the shot, nosing around for a short time before bounding down the street and disappearing into another home’s yard.
On Saturday, a woman suffered a minor injury at about 9:20 a.m. when she was walking her dog near the Monrovia foothills. Monrovia police said the bear’s claw made contact with the back of the woman’s knee.
It was unclear if it was the same bear that appeared in the live newscast Sunday morning.
Bear catchers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were reportedly at the scene on Sunday to try to capture the animal.
In January, a large black bear was evicted from a crawl space beneath an Altadena home after living in that foothill community for about six weeks.