{"id":124409,"date":"2026-01-08T00:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:25:07","slug":"smoke-in-fresno-home-traced-to-faulty-phone-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124409\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke in Fresno home traced to faulty phone charger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.yourcentralvalley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 A phone charger malfunctioned, leaving a Fresno home filled with smoke Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Just after 4:40 p.m., fire crews received reports of a possible house fire on Swift Avenue, near Delbert Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>When crews arrived, they found smoke throughout the home and began a thorough search to locate the source. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters determined the smoke was caused by a malfunctioning cell phone that had been left charging. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say the lithium-ion battery did not enter the thermal runaway phase and did not ignite any surrounding materials. <\/p>\n<p>Fresno Fire reminds residents to only use manufacturer-approved accessories and avoid leaving devices unattended while charging.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 A phone charger malfunctioned, leaving a Fresno home filled with smoke Tuesday. Just after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,15824,64907],"class_list":{"0":"post-124409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-lithium-ion-battery","12":"tag-swift-avenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}