{"id":170045,"date":"2026-02-09T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170045\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:55:07","slug":"family-remembers-loved-ones-lost-in-fresno-retirement-home-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170045\/","title":{"rendered":"Family remembers loved ones lost in Fresno retirement home fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A family is mourning the loss of their grandmother and her grandson, who were killed during a fire in Southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The flames broke out inside a unit at Willow Court Retirement Community on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters found 66-year-old Rita Avila and 22-year-old Joseph Irelan inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They also discovered five dead pets: four cats and a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A relative spoke to Action News about how difficult it&#8217;s been to lose two members of their family.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8221;Everyone&#8217;s heart is just broken, and we&#8217;re all just trying to get through it the best way that we can, and the fact that my cousin has to bury her child, it&#8217;s like, how do you do that? How do you do this and mourn your mom at the same time and plan her service?&#8221; says Autumn Avila, a family member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;d like to help the family during this time, we will have a link to their GoFundMe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/a-life-loved-deeply-joseph-irelan?attribution_id=sl%3A6b8aa6e3-80ec-4f4a-b0b3-421c975a30cb&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1770325190&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_te&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=qr_code&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPyEmNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwc09IZ2lTY2kzZUR1ZUgxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTE0NzcxNTY5MjI4MDYxAAEeedunSeMHhQClcXsqNhoKhqILIojCfYEzMSS5qR-hhSdmEqXiTU0YKsOpiuY_aem_gfftYD1Hpq5_f5c1vUNpRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is mourning the loss of their grandmother and her grandson, who were killed during a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,81541,81540],"class_list":{"0":"post-170045","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","11":"tag-joseph-irelan","12":"tag-rita-avila"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170045","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=170045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}