{"id":250506,"date":"2026-04-03T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:21:09","slug":"fresno-firefighters-contain-blaze-at-east-ashlan-strip-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250506\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Firefighters Contain Blaze at East Ashlan Strip Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters battled a commercial structure fire Thursday afternoon at a strip mall on the 1600 block of East Ashlan Avenue near Blackstone, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Fire Department responded just after 2 p.m. following multiple reports of heavy smoke. First crews on scene reported flames and smoke coming from the roof and evacuated nearby businesses while initiating an aggressive fire attack.<\/p>\n<p>The shopping center houses a burger restaurant, vacant barbershop, taqueria, 7-Eleven, and clothing store, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the vacant unit, the taqueria, and 7-Eleven sustained damage, but crews successfully prevented the fire from spreading to the remaining businesses.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. The incident escalated to a third alarm, with 65 firefighters working to extinguish hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battled a commercial structure fire Thursday afternoon at a strip mall on the 1600 block of East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-250506","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250506","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=250506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}