VIDEO: Bear cubs rescued from tree

Last updated: July 1, 2016 - 5:32pm


SCOTT TWP. -- Game Commission officers spent about an hour Thursday morning coaxing a pair of black bear cubs out of a tree here after the mother bear was hit by a car along Route 11.


Officials were eventually able to tranquilize the babies with plans to transport them to a rehabilitation facility. A reporter and photographer were on the scene, and captured video of the rescue:



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