These bear videos have happy endings.<\/p>\n
A black bear that appears to have been briefly trapped or stuck in a Mendenhall Valley home attachment was freed Tuesday evening and the release was caught on video.<\/p>\n
Mendenhall Valley resident John David was home with his triplets on Tuesday, a day with an unusually high amount of bear activity in his neighborhood off Valley Boulevard.<\/p>\n
“It was weird. We had four bear sightings that day,” David said.<\/p>\n
About an hour after a mother and cub came through his yard, David heard loud noises from a storage unit attached to a neighbor’s home across the yard. “It sounded like they were knocking down a wall,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Moments later, David told the Empire in a phone interview, Juneau Police Department officers were on scene. David captured the scene on video on Tuesday, and shared the cellphone footage with the Empire.<\/p>\n
The video shows two people and a Juneau Police Department officer working together to release the bear from what David described as a neighbor’s storage unit. A man in a red shirt holding a shovel stands at the door of the storage unit in the video, a JPD officer a few feet behind him. The man in the red shirt opens the door, and a black bear bolts out of the storage unit.<\/p>\n
David said he doesn’t think the mother bear and the trapped bear were the same bear. The mother was “hefty” while the trapped bear was “scrawny,” he said.<\/p>\n
JPD didn’t respond to phone messages left Tuesday with the supervising officer.<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Kevin Gullufsen at kgullufsen@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @KevinGullufsen.<\/b><\/p>\n
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