Black bear spotted in Fairmount Park (Philadelphia)
A black bear was spotted in the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park Friday morning.
Maura McCarthy, executive director of the Friends of the Wissahickon, said she got a call about 11 a.m. from one of the nonprofit's members, who told her about the bear.
"He looked downstream and saw a black bear approaching on the same bank he was on," McCarthy said, recalling what the fisherman told her. "The bear was fishing."
An excited McCarthy - who had never seen a bear in the Wissahickon - then rushed into her car with three colleagues from the Friends office in Chestnut Hill and drove five minutes, then walked another five to get to where the bear was seen.
Four people - the fisherman, two electrical workers and a passerby - were at the site, near Forbidden Drive and Valley Green Road, on the Upper Roxborough side of the creek.
McCarthy missed seeing the bear close-up, but said those who saw the animal told her it swam across the creek and got out on the opposite bank when it noticed the crowd gathering along the water.
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Probably the first wild bear to set foot inside the City of Philadelphia in decades if not longer. Well, it is Friday the 13th after all.
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