An apartment fire Friday evening displaced dozens of residents and caused extensive damage to a 12-unit apartment complex in Fresno.<\/p>\n
Firefighters were dispatched to the scene shortly before 8 p.m. on San Jose, near Blackstone and Shaw Avenues, and arrived to find flames burning on exterior balconies at the rear of the complex.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw the backside of the apartments on fire,\u201d Battalion Chief Mike Gilbert said. \u201cIt looked like an exterior fire that had started outside, and both first- and second-story balconies were on fire. The fire was moving up into the attic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Approximately 40 to 45 firefighters responded to the incident.<\/p>\n
Crews discovered the fire had spread through the attic space and into second-story apartments, extending in multiple directions.<\/p>\n
Gilbert said firefighters attacked the blaze from inside the structure while Fresno police officers assisted with evacuating residents from units that had not yet been affected by the fire.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to evacuate everybody safely,\u201d Gilbert said.<\/p>\n
The fire caused heavy damage to the second-floor apartments; ceilings collapsed in several units, Gilbert said.<\/p>\n
First-floor apartments sustained primarily smoke damage, though one ground-level unit experienced fire damage.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apartment fire Friday evening displaced dozens of residents and caused extensive damage to a 12-unit apartment complex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[31929,4318,112,114,113,66446],"class_list":["post-359941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-apartment-complex","tag-apartment-fire","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mike-gilbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359941","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=359941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}