Bear sightings in Goleta has residents worried

GOLETA, Calif. – A family in a quiet neighborhood in Goleta woke up early Tuesday morning to an alert that their ring camera was detecting some motion. What they saw, was completely unexpected.

“My mom came into my room and woke me up and said there was a bear outside,” said Atalia Finley. “I thought it was a dream, but then I got up out of bed and my dad was pacing around the house and said that he got a notification on his ring camera.”

The bear went right up to the front door of their home on Pinetree Place, a neighborhood with families with kids and just a couple blocks away from an elementary school…

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