{"id":1500223,"date":"2022-06-01T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500223"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:45:00","slug":"photos-mountain-lion-wanders-into-ca-high-school-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photos-mountain-lion-wanders-into-ca-high-school-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Mountain Lion Wanders Into CA High School Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphotos-mountain-lion-wanders-into-ca-high-school-classroom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Students and faculty at a California high school had a close encounter with a mountain lion Wednesday morning after the big cat wandered into the building.<\/p>\n<p>The San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s Department reported around 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday that the mountain lion entered the grounds of the La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District. Fortunately, students and staff of Pescadero High School were reported safe, the Sheriff\u2019s Department noted, and authorities had been called to safely and humanely remove the animal from the school. A teacher spotted the creature early Wednesday morning before authorities corralled it in a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SMCSO can confirm at this time that ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE SAFE at Pescadero High School,\u201d the Sherriff\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMCSheriff\/status\/1532037114870652928\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThere is currently a mountain lion that entered the La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District grounds. [US Fish and Wildlife Service] has been notified for safe and humane removal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local news reporters shared pictures of the cat, curled up under a teacher\u2019s desk inside a classroom:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: San Mateo Sheriffs Office says a Mountain Lion is inside a classroom at Pescadero High School. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gfPyED6nHU\">pic.twitter.com\/gfPyED6nHU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephanie Magallon NBC Bay Area (@MagallonNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagallonNews\/status\/1532043800478044161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re not sure of the context, but this appears to be a mountain lion inside a Pescadero High classroom this morning. Sheriff says everyone is safe. We\u2019re working on more details. Photo courtesy School staff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8MA4yi00N\">pic.twitter.com\/z8MA4yi00N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Half Moon Bay Review (@hmbreview) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hmbreview\/status\/1532046080761659393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s a better picture of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mountainlion?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mountainlion<\/a> inside an English classroom at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pescadero?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pescadero<\/a> HS.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is responding. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcbayarea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nbcbayarea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kjTajLpGfP\">pic.twitter.com\/kjTajLpGfP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephanie Magallon NBC Bay Area (@MagallonNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagallonNews\/status\/1532063544253902848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area later tweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcbayarea\/status\/1532058569033453568?s=20&#038;t=aVQyThLD0XmR70REPcXKbQ\">helicopter footage<\/a> of the scene, showing authorities standing outside the school while enacting a plan to get the mountain lion out. Authorities barricaded a pathway from the school onto the grounds with lunch tables, and multiple individuals were standing outside an entrance to the school. The sheriff\u2019s office said there was no immediate threat, NBC added in the tweet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Mountain-lion-found-in-high-school-17212441.php\">SFGate<\/a> reported that Fish and Wildlife workers were on the scene by 10 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmbreview.com\/news\/mountain-lion-inside-pescadero-classroom\/article_5726c8f2-e1ce-11ec-b3f1-8b89feab5cb8.html\">Half Moon Bay Review<\/a>, a local newspaper in San Mateo County,\u00a0Pescadero High School English teacher Randy Vail sent an email around 10:40 a.m. local time explaining the situation. Vail told the paper that the mountain lion was first spotted in front of the school early Wednesday morning by a teacher and a student. The cat reportedly ran into the glass doors of the main entrance, and somehow got inside. Once inside, it ran into the glass door again, but could not get out. Instead, another staff member told the outlet, the cat walked into an English classroom, where a teacher closed the door, trapping the cat in the room.<\/p>\n<p>A Sheriff\u2019s Department spokesman told the Half Moon Bay Review that dispatchers received a call around 8:20 a.m., shortly before school started.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Acosta, a detective for the San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s Office, told SFGate that janitorial staff at the school discovered the cat. The mountain lion is likely a juvenile. \u201cIt probably got lost,\u201d Acosta added.<\/p>\n<p>Another mountain lion was spotted elsewhere in San Mateo County earlier this month, according to local news reports. NBC Bay Area reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/peninsula\/mountain-lion-spotted-on-ladera-residents-surveillance-camera\/2883242\/\">May 6<\/a> that the cat was caught on a homeowner\u2019s surveillance camera around 10:30 p.m. in Ladera, about 30 miles away from Pescadero.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain lions, properly called cougars, but also known as pumas or panthers, are the second-largest species of New World big cats, right behind jaguars. They are also the most widely-distributed of any wildland animal in the Americas, found all across South America, through Mexico and up into the mountain west and west coast of the U.S., all the way north into the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada. They are mostly nocturnal and reclusive. They do not consider humans as prey and stay away from people. Attacks on people are very rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and faculty at a California high school had a close encounter with a mountain lion Wednesday morning after the big cat wandered into the building. The San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s Department reported around 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday that the mountain lion entered the grounds of the La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District. 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