Zoo visitors moved to secure areas after grizzly bears escape enclosure

Saturday, June 23, 2018
MILWAUKEE (WPVI) -- Visitors to Milwaukee's zoo were whisked away to secure areas when two grizzly bears escaped.
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The bears got out of their enclosure through an open door, and made it into what zoo officials described as a secondary containment area.

It wasn't a public space, but visitors were moved to secure buildings, and the grounds were effectively locked-down for a half hour.

One visitor says she couldn't get to her car in the parking lot.

Milwaukee County Zoo officials say "at no time was the visiting public in danger."
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However, they would not answer a reporter's question about how the incident happened.

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