Dramatic video reveals a black bear getting swept up in raging rapids after it tried to swim throughout a river in California.
Video posted Saturday, Might 27, reveals the bear because it hops into the water and is instantly swept downstream by white-capped currents. The bear’s head bobs underneath the water a number of occasions earlier than it manages to interrupt freed from the rapids and furiously swim to shore.
Volunteer Hearth Chief Mike Stewart captured the video from the again deck of the Washington Lodge alongside the Yuba River in Washington, California, he advised McClatchy Information. The division has been warning folks to remain out of the river as heavy snowpack has greater than doubled the quantity of spring runoff that’s typical for the world, he mentioned.
“Nicely… I suppose we should always add one other language to the ‘Keep out, keep alive’ marketing campaign!” division officers mentioned within the caption of the video, which they posted to their Fb web page.
Officers mentioned the bear was discovered secure.
“Shook like a canine and went searching for a picnic basket,” officers mentioned.
Folks had been relieved to listen to the bear made it out OK.
“I used to be holding my breath by your complete video! The present is fierce,” they mentioned.
The rapids had been so robust, hearth officers doubted a human would have lived by the identical ordeal.
“No human might have survived that,” they mentioned within the feedback.
Stewart estimated the bear weighs about 300 kilos, ABC10 reported.
Officers shared a public service announcement concerning the river in April.
“As a toddler rising up on the South Yuba River there have been a number of guidelines that different youngsters didn’t have, however two have caught with me:
You’ll be able to’t go barefoot till mother’s birthday (early Might), and
You’ll be able to’t go right down to the river till the Fourth of July.
“Quantity 2 is particularly true this yr!” the publish says. “With the epic snowpack and the hotter climate, the already excessive river will enhance its movement beginning Friday because the high-country lakes begin to spill.”
Washington, California, is about 80 miles northeast of Sacramento.
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