{"id":329080,"date":"2026-05-23T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:54:08","slug":"body-found-in-fresno-grass-fire-near-hwy-41-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329080\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Fresno grass fire near Hwy 41 investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3675.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Fire crews from the Fresno Fire Department responded to a grass fire and discovered a dead person on Friday, May 22, 2026 at Jensen and Lotus Avenues, near Highway 41.\" alt=\"Fire crews from the Fresno Fire Department responded to a grass fire and discovered a dead person on Friday, May 22, 2026 at Jensen and Lotus Avenues, near Highway 41.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Fire crews from the Fresno Fire Department responded to a grass fire and discovered a dead person on Friday, May 22, 2026 at Jensen and Lotus Avenues, near Highway 41.<\/p>\n<p>                ANTHONY GALAVIZ<\/p>\n<p>            agalaviz@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n<p>A person was found dead Friday evening as crews from the Fresno Fire Department responded to a large grass fire.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the blaze at 7:11 p.m. near Jensen and Lotus avenues, near Highway 41.<\/p>\n<p>While battling the fire, crews found a body at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Arson investigators were called to assist with the investigation. Police said the death appears to be from natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 22, 2026 at 9:35 PM.<\/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\/05\/1779519248_513_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 from the Fresno Fire Department responded to a grass fire and discovered a dead person on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-329080","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\/329080","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=329080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}