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Animal Trainer Killed by Grizzly Bear
Animal Trainer Steven Miller Was Attacked by a Five-year-old Grizzly Bear. Rachel Calderon Reports.
A deadly grizzly bear attack took the life of the bear trainer yesterday. The bear was the same one used in the film Semi-Pro with Will Farrell. It happened at a training facility for exotic animals used in movies and TV shows. Rachel Calderon is in Running Springs with more on this story. Good morning Rachel.
Good morning, Frank, yes, we are in Running Springs just several miles away from er, Big Bear Lake where as you mentioned that er, Predators in Action training facility is located. Now I want to bring you up to speak with some information I got just a few minutes ago from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
As this point, it believes that its part, its role and its investigation is wrapped up at this point because they were just looking to see if there is anything criminal that could have happened in this case. As far as they know, this is just an accident. And that’s how they have left it at this point. But there's still an investigation going on by Cal OSHA as well as the Department of Fish and Game to determine what will happen to the bear.
Now, this is a picture of the victim in this case. He’s 39-year-old. Stephan Miller, he was one of three experienced trainers at the Predators in Action Facility who was working with the five-year-old grizzly bear known as Rocky. Now this is aerial footage of the scene shot just after it happened around 2:30 on Tuesday now during training for an upcoming commercial, that 700 pound, seven-and-half-foot bear launched at Miller for an unknown reason and had to be subdued with pepper spray. Unfortunately, Mill did not survive; he died of massive neck and head wounds.
So he was used to people, used to the trainers, and it just happened to be a sad accident today, it was just an initial single bite, so there was no other further aggression. He didn't attack anything, or…that was just simply, you know, something is unexplainable. Rocky was recently, as you motioned in film Semi-Pro. In this scene it appears he’s wrestling Will Ferrell, but it’s actually a stunt man who is actually Randy Miller the cousin of Stephan, and he also is the owner of Predators in Action.
Randy Miller has trained wild animals for 25 years, and his company Predators in Action. Its website says it trains animals for film and television. Several different kinds of animals like lions and cougars as well as bears. And it says it hasn’t had any incident in recent history now again the Department of Fish and Game is investigating to see whether or not this animal will be destroyed, and the investigation is still ongoing as well with Cal OSHA. That is the latest from Running Springs this morning, Rachel Calderon back to you in Hollywood.
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grizzly bear——灰熊
cougar——美洲狮
subdue——To quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make tractable.
