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Police responding to a bear sighting found the furry animal chilling in someone’s jacuzzi. 

Footage released by authorities in Burbank, Southern California, shows the bear lazing nonchalantly in the pool.

The department said after being spotted by officers the animal climbed back out and headed for a nearby tree. 

The sighting was reported in a residential neighbourhood about 10 miles north of Los Angeles, near the Verdugo mountains. 

Authorities added homeowners should avoid all confrontation with bears and aim to keep anything that might attract them, like rubbish and food, carefully stowed away. 

But there’s decidedly less residents can do to escape the scorching temperatures that drove the creature to the jacuzzi in the first place. 

Earlier this month, temperatures at Furnace Creek in California’s aptly-named Death Valley, the hottest place on earth, edged close to the highest recorded temperature in more than 90 years. 

Meanwhile, firefighters battled brush fires that forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 homes, though the scale of destruction pales compared to the wildfires that have ravaged Greece recently. 

Nor is it the only bizarre tale of bear encounters in recent weeks. 

A 64-year-old woman in the US state of Maine made headlines after punched a bear on the nose for chasing her dog through her garden. 

Lynn Kelly, of Porter, told local press: ‘He was a foot taller than I was and coming at me. 

‘I tried to make myself as big as I could and was screaming and yelling.’

She added: ‘I had to fight him off because I wasn’t gonna run from him, because I know they can catch you.’

Two weeks before Lynn’s own encounter, 90-year-old Altha Williams, of Sevierville, Tennessee, had bravely fought off a black bear with nothing but a lawn chair.

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