\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA young black bear that wandered through downtown Portland on Friday was safely tranquilized and relocated after entering a parking garage beneath the Portland Harbor Hotel.The Portland Police Department responded to reports of the bear near York Street at about 10:30 a.m. Officers monitored the animal\u2019s movements and established safety perimeters as it traveled through several downtown areas before entering the basement-level garage near Union and Fore streets.Maine Game Wardens and state wildlife biologists responded to the scene, tranquilized the bear and transported it to a suitable habitat, where it was released.No injuries were reported.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tPORTLAND, Maine \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A young black bear that wandered through downtown Portland on Friday was safely tranquilized and relocated after entering a parking garage beneath the Portland Harbor Hotel.<\/p>\n The Portland Police Department responded to reports of the bear near York Street at about 10:30 a.m. Officers monitored the animal\u2019s movements and established safety perimeters as it traveled through several downtown areas before entering the basement-level garage near Union and Fore streets.<\/p>\n Maine Game Wardens and state wildlife biologists responded to the scene, tranquilized the bear and transported it to a suitable habitat, where it was released.<\/p>\n No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young black bear that wandered through downtown Portland on Friday was safely tranquilized and relocated after entering…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":880856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[357855,4749,357854,2418,357846,10808,2416,357847,357853,357848,357849,357850,157182,157192,10692,16585,23077,357851,169275,357852,357857,1630,159,357858,357856,15742,67,132,68,837,132677],"class_list":["post-880855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-a-m-officers","tag-animal","tag-basement-level-garage","tag-bear","tag-bear-in-maine","tag-bear-sighting","tag-black-bear","tag-black-bear-maine","tag-fore-street","tag-maine-bear","tag-maine-bear-sighting","tag-maine-black-bear","tag-maine-game-warden","tag-maine-game-wardens","tag-maine-news","tag-movement","tag-portland","tag-portland-bear-sighting","tag-portland-maine","tag-portland-maine-police","tag-portland-police-department","tag-report","tag-science","tag-several-downtown-area","tag-state-wildlife-biologist","tag-union","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife","tag-york-street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}