Video shows bear wandering through Los Angeles neighborhood

A bear meandered through a neighborhood near the Hansen Dam in Pacoima Monday morning, scaling fences and snooping in backyards.

Aerial footage showed the bear in the area of Borden Avenue and Terra Bella Street, surprising neighbors, exciting dogs, and causing a brief lockdown of the Sara Coughlin Elementary School campus. 

At one point, the bear was seen eating from dog bowls in the backyard of one home, then continuing along its way.

Law enforcement and California Department of Fish and Wildlife representatives were monitoring the bear as it strolled through the neighborhood.

Efforts to get the bear back home were underway after it was struck with a tranquilizer, leaving it motionless on a fence.

The bear was safely lowered from the fence and moved to a trailer for transport.