{"id":164721,"date":"2026-02-05T05:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:45:50","slug":"woman-and-grandson-killed-in-fire-at-retirement-center-in-fresno-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164721\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and grandson killed in fire at retirement center in Fresno identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two people are dead after an apartment fire on Tuesday morning in southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was at Willow Retirement Center near Butler and Willow Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/2-kids-1-woman-killed-in-porterville-house-fire-around-1235-am-for-reports-of-a-house-fire-near-plano-avenue-and-harrison-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2 kids, 1 woman killed in Porterville house fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Fire Department has confirmed that two people were found dead inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>The victims have been identified as 66-year-old Rita Avila and her 22-year-old grandson, Joseph Irelan of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still working to determine how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p><p>FOX26 News Reporter Christina Rodriguez with Fresno Fire PIO Josh Sellers.{ }(Photo: FOX26 photojournalist Jordan Callison)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (3)<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two people are dead after an apartment fire on Tuesday morning in southeast Fresno.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-164721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164721","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=164721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}