FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Fire Department responded to what it thought was an apartment fire around 6:30 p.m. near Blackstone and Sierra Avenues on Monday. <\/p>\n
As fire crews arrived, they found a large column of thick black smoke visible for miles.<\/p>\n
The 911 calls reported the fire was coming from an apartment complex located behind Clawson Motorsports on Blackstone Avenue.<\/p>\n
Firefighters determined the fire had spread into nearby vegetation and was threatening a two-story apartment building, but then discovered the main source of the fire and smoke was actually burning in the back lot behind Clawson Motorsports.<\/p>\n
11 UTV side-by-sides damaged by fire at Clawson Motorsports in Fresno (Photo: FFD)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
They took a defensive position to protect the apartment building from the advancing flames while redirecting incoming resources to attack the main fire in the dealership lot. <\/p>\n
The apartment building was successfully protected, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Eleven UTVs in the dealership lot were damaged in the fire. <\/p>\n
The cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Fire Department responded to what it thought was an apartment fire around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-312730","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\/312730","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=312730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}