{"id":310622,"date":"2026-05-11T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:13:10","slug":"two-people-found-dead-in-small-shaft-under-freeway-in-downtown-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310622\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people found dead in small shaft under freeway in Downtown Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two people were found dead in a small, confined shaft under a freeway Monday morning in Downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Fire Department says they were first called to the area after witnesses saw smoke coming from a grate near Fresno and H Streets.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/child-on-e-bike-hospitalized-after-truck-collision-expected-to-recover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Child on e-bike hospitalized after truck collision, expected to recover<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rescue team entered a small space and found one person who was unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>They were removed from the area and rushed to a nearby ambulance but were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue crews went back into the shaft to make sure there were no more victims, when they found another person inside.<\/p>\n<p>They were removed from the small area and pronounced dead on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department will be on scene investigating the deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two people were found dead in a small, confined shaft under a freeway Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-310622","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\/310622","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=310622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}