Arizona: Residents of Arizona, were in for quite a shock on Monday after they saw that a bear had climbed up an electric pole and got tangled in power pole wires on the outskirts of town. Soon after Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative, a utility company based in the southern Arizona city of Willcox, was notified about the bear, prompting rescue efforts, ABC News reported.
Upon reaching there, utility workers immediately disabled the power so the animal would not get electrocuted. They then tried to persuade the bear to come down and even nudged him with a fiberglass stick. Initially, the bear bit and grabbed the stick, but eventually went down on its own.
“Alright little bear, time to get off this pole,” one person says in the video.
“Alright, little bear. Time to get off this pole.”
After being called to the scene, utility workers immediately cut the power and then helped coax this bear off a power pole in Arizona. The bear eventually climbed down safely and ran off into the desert. https://t.co/N3YkuSiGgg pic.twitter.com/FJSe51UEXD
— ABC News (@ABC) June 10, 2021
Warner Newbauer and Efren Gallego
of the Sulphur Spring Valley Electric Co-op coaxing a young bear off a utility pole in Willcox yesterday.
They cut power to the pole before going up in their boom truck basket. The bear, likely startled up the pole, then moved off uninjured. pic.twitter.com/BIjetTHsja— AZ Game & Fish Dept (@azgfdTucson) June 8, 2021
”I think I told him I was gonna help him get down the pole. I know he couldn’t understand me. But it did get his attention,” Werner Neubauer, a company lineman later told Associated Press.
The bear eventually climbed down safely and ran off into the desert. According to Neubauer, there were no injuries, and the power outage, which affected residential customers, only lasted about 15 minutes.
The bear at the beginning of this video is my spirit animal. 🐻❤️ https://t.co/wH1F7LuC7t
— Matt Hoffman (@matthoffmanwx) June 11, 2021
So this ain’t terrifying to y’all? That bears can casually climb like that? and before y’all blow this, I’m born and raised in the city 🥴 https://t.co/iDBjjth8HG
— Excessively Black (@_MyDMsBroke) June 10, 2021
Poor wee dab must have thought it was a tree. https://t.co/JZ9OKCEJZW
— Fanny Is Bored With Being Gaslighted (@Angel41527796) June 10, 2021
I feel so bad for him ☹️ how long was he up there? Where’s his family? 💔
— Jeannius ☀ (@Shbobto) June 10, 2021
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