A bear was stuck in a tree behind the Bishop Curtis Homes, a retirement community on Main Street in Danbury on Tuesday morning.
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton tweeted photos of the bear.
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.
After a few minutes, the bear did fall from the tree and into the net.
DEEP officials planned to return the bear to the woods and let it go.
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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