{"id":180042,"date":"2026-02-16T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:06:10","slug":"vacant-city-motel-blaze-injures-firefighter-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180042\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant City Motel blaze injures firefighter in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Fire crews responded to a motel fire on G Street in Fresno, California on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. A firefighter was injured and was taken to the hospital.\" title=\"Fire crews responded to a motel fire on G Street in Fresno, California on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. A firefighter was injured and was taken to the hospital.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Fire crews responded to a motel fire on G Street in Fresno, California on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. A firefighter was injured and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>                ANTHONY GALAVIZ<\/p>\n<p>            agalaviz@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter was injured Sunday night while battling a blaze at an old motel in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from the Fresno Fire Department responded to the vacant City Motel just after 9:30 p.m. to a report of a fire at 2309 S G Street.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to knock down the flames, but not before one firefighter partially fell into a hole, suffering a lower-body injury, officials say. He was taken to a hospital for observation.<\/p>\n<p>After extinguishing the fire, crews searched the motel and found no one inside.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771243569_951_Anthony Galaviz headshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Anthony Galaviz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Galaviz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Anthony Galaviz writes about sports for The Fresno Bee. He covers the Las Vegas Raiders, high schools, boxing, MMA and junior colleges. He\u2019s been with The Bee since 1997 and attended Fresno City College before graduating from Fresno State with a major in journalism and a minor in criminology.<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/fresnobee.com\/subscribe&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;\" style=\"color: #5169B8; text-transform: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews responded to a motel fire on G Street in Fresno, California on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[85475,112,114,85474,113,85477,85476],"class_list":{"0":"post-180042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-firefighter-injured","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-motel-fire","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-s-g-street-fire","14":"tag-vacant-hotel-blaze"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180042","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=180042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}