{"id":163353,"date":"2026-02-04T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163353\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:18:18","slug":"23-year-old-identified-as-man-killed-in-fiery-fresno-county-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163353\/","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old identified as man killed in fiery Fresno County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man who was killed in the fiery crash with a semi truck in thick fog has been identified as 23-year-old Michael Molano of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened on the morning of January 18 on Clovis Avenue near Highway 99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say Molano&#8217;s pickup ran into a semi truck making a u-turn in dense fog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both vehicles caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The semi driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno County Coroner&#8217;s Office said severe burns made it harder to identify Molano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the California Highway Patrol, the thick fog was a main factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who was killed in the fiery crash with a semi truck in thick fog has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,39366,11831,112,79099,114,113,79098,14896,47687],"class_list":["post-163353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-dense-fog","tag-fiery-crash","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county-coroner39s-office","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-michael-molano","tag-semi-truck","tag-thick-fog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163353","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=163353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}