{"id":162501,"date":"2026-02-03T21:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:34:54","slug":"fire-burns-vacant-carls-jr-near-fcc-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162501\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Burns Vacant Carl\u2019s Jr. Near FCC \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire burned the recently vacant Carl\u2019s Jr. by Fresno City College near McKinley and Blackstone Avenues on Wednesday. No major injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calls reported smoke and flames coming from the Carl\u2019s Jr. around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Fire Department Battalion Chief Kirk Wanless was among the responders to the scene. He said they were aware the building was vacant, but worked to save the structure until it became unsafe for firefighters to be inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became pretty apparent to us fairly quickly that it was not tenable for us firefighters to be in there, and there was no real game in saving this structure,\u201d Wanless said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter was reported to have received a minor injury, but they are expected to be okay.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2530980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image2-3-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  \/>Firefighters watch as they continuously cool down the Carl\u2019s Jr. building near McKinley and Blackstone Avenues on Jan. 28 (Photo by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/staff_profile\/katrina-saldivar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katrina Saldivar<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The exact cause of the fire is still unknown, but Wanless believed it was caused by human activity<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it is intentional or malicious or how they did it, it\u2019s hard to say,\u201d Wanless said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Carl\u2019s Jr. building and nearby Taco Bell were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/news\/2025\/10\/13\/businesses-closed-near-fcc-to-make-room-for-new-railroad-project\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchased by the city<\/a> in order to make way for a new vehicle underpass beneath the BSNF railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Wanless said he and his team attempted to save the building, but the flames were too strong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2530981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image3-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  \/>Yellow tape blocking off the burned Carl\u2019s Jr. on Blackstone and McKinley Avenue after a fire erupted on Jan. 28. (Photo by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/staff_profile\/katrina-saldivar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katrina Saldivar<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire burned the recently vacant Carl\u2019s Jr. by Fresno City College near McKinley and Blackstone Avenues on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-162501","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\/162501","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=162501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}