{"id":164213,"date":"2026-02-04T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:32:08","slug":"grandmother-and-grandson-killed-in-fire-at-fresno-retirement-center-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164213\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother and grandson killed in fire at Fresno retirement center identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The two people killed in a fire at a retirement community in southeast Fresno have been identified as 66-year-old Rita Avila and 22-year-old Joseph Irelan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say that Avila was Irelan&#8217;s grandmother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire broke out at Willow Court Retirement Community at around 8 am Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/man-woman-found-dead-fire-willow-retirement-center-southeast-fresno-officials-say\/18535057\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man, woman found dead in fire at Willow Retirement Community in southeast Fresno, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Fire says it sparked inside a unit. When they arrived, they discovered Avila, Irelan, four cats and a dog dead inside, and the fire was nearly extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire started in the living room. Authorities say it did extend to the attic, but none of the adjoining units were damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno police have already ruled out foul play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The coroner&#8217;s office is doing an autopsy on the two victims to uncover the cause of their deaths.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The two people killed in a fire at a retirement community in southeast Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[79455,112,114,113,79453,11961,294,5326,79454],"class_list":{"0":"post-164213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-79455","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-retirement-community","13":"tag-southeast-fresno","14":"tag-timely","15":"tag-two-people-killed","16":"tag-victims-identified"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164213","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=164213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}