{"id":24542,"date":"2019-09-28T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T12:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=24542"},"modified":"2019-09-28T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T11:51:24","slug":"bear-attack-in-kenora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/28\/bear-attack-in-kenora\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Attack in Kenora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:11a.m. on Thursday September 26, 2019 Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to the report of a bear attack on the Rice Lake Road.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP responded to a report of a 69 year old male, with non-life threatening injuries who was on route to the hospital who stated he had been attacked by a black bear while walking.\u00a0A bear was dispatched in the area that was believed to be the bear responsible for the attack.\u00a0The Ministry of Natural Resources is continuing with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>People are reminded to use extreme caution when encountering bears.\u00a0If you witness a bear call Bear Wise at <strong>1-866-514-2327<\/strong> or <strong>911<\/strong> for emergencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-emergency encounters include<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>roams and checks garbage<\/li>\n<li>breaks into shed where garbage or food is stored<\/li>\n<li>pulls down bird feeder<\/li>\n<li>moves through back yard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If an emergency situation arrives call 911 immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emergency situations include<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>enters a school yard<\/li>\n<li>enters or tries to enter residence<\/li>\n<li>wanders into public gathering<\/li>\n<li>stalks people and lingers<\/li>\n<li>kills livestock\/pets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:11a.m. on Thursday September 26, 2019 Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to the report of a bear attack on the Rice Lake Road. The OPP responded to a report of a 69 year old male, with non-life threatening injuries who was on route to the hospital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 03:43:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24543,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542\/revisions\/24543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}