- 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.
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.
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.