A bear was stuck in a tree behind the Bishop Curtis Homes, a retirement community on Main Street in Danbury on Tuesday morning, according to Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton.
The Danbury Fire Department and the state Department of Energy & Environmental Protection responded, set up a net for the bear to fall into and shot it with tranquilizer, according to Tweets from the mayor.
According to the state DEEP's reports of black bear sightings, there have been 2,860 sightings in the state between June 5, 2012 and May 29, 2013. Two of them have been in Danbury.
Here's our boy. About 250lbs. #bear #Danbury twitter.com/MayorMark/stat…
— MayorMark (@MayorMark) June 4, 2013
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Photo Credit: Mayor Mark Boughton Twitter
