{"id":132158,"date":"2026-01-13T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/132158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:32:09","slug":"crews-take-defensive-approach-as-fire-destroy-familiar-vacant-house-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/132158\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews take defensive approach as fire destroy familiar vacant house in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Firefighters were called out to a vacant house fire again on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It started around 4:30 a.m. at a boarded-up structure on the 1800 block of East Olive Avenue, a house they have been to at least 11 times.<\/p>\n<p>While approaching, they could see a large column of smoke from far away and requested additional resources.<\/p>\n<p><p>Crews take defensive approach as fire destroy familiar vacant house in Fresno (Courtesy: Fresno Fire)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/firefighters-respond-to-fire-in-fowler-thick-smoke-seen-for-miles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Large fire in Fowler; thick smoke seen for miles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, crews found heavy smoke and flames coming from the vacant residence. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the intense fire and significant structural damage from multiple prior fires, firefighters were forced to take a defensive stance on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 32 firefighters worked to put out the fire. The structure was deemed a total loss. <\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains unknown, but the property is known for homeless activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Firefighters were called out to a vacant house fire again on Tuesday morning. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-132158","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132158","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=132158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}