A bear tried to beat the sweltering heat by lounging in a California homeowner's jacuzzi

Lauren Edmonds
·2 min read

  • A bear was filmed lounging in a homeowner's backyard jacuzzi in Southern California.

  • The Burbank Police Department shared the footage on its Facebook page on Friday.

  • California and other parts of the globe are experiencing extreme heat waves this summer.

A bear decided to beat the sweltering summer heat by lounging in a homeowner's jacuzzi in Southern California.

A rep for the Burbank Police Department told Insider officers arrived at a local hillside neighborhood around 3:30 p.m. Friday after someone reported a bear sighting. Officers located the bear in a homeowner's backyard, where they spotted it lazing in the jacuzzi, according to the police department.

"After a short dip, the bear made his way over the wall and is now in a tree to the rear of the residence," a rep for the department said in a statement.

The statement added that the bear was last seen around 6 p.m. that evening, "peacefully sleeping" in a tree. The department shared footage of the bear lazing around the jacuzzi on its Facebook page.

"This #bear is beating the heat in Burbank!" the caption read.

A woman stands near a digital display of an unofficial heat reading at Furnace Creek Visitor Center during a heat wave in Death Valley National Park, California, on July 16, 2023.
A woman stands in Death Valley National Park, California, on July 16, 2023.RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty Images

People across the world are experiencing heat waves as temperatures reach blistering heights. In the United States, some people living in Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, had to be hospitalized for burns after touching the pavement. The heat became so unbearable in California that an Amazon delivery driver jumped in a customer's pool fully clothed.

Insider's Andrea Michelson reported that Americans are experiencing a "wet bulb" heat when heat and humidity are too high for sweat to evaporate — a combination that can be fatal. According to a 2020 Scientific Advances study, the climate crisis makes wet bulb conditions more common.

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