{"id":387607,"date":"2026-07-06T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:10:15","slug":"dogs-barking-alerts-fresno-homeowner-to-fire-likely-sparked-by-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387607\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog\u2019s barking alerts Fresno homeowner to fire likely sparked by fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fresno homeowner escaped serious injury Saturday night after his dog\u2019s barking woke him in time to escape a fire that damaged his home and spread to nearby vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters responded just after 11 p.m. to a home on Wilson Avenue near Belmont Avenue, where flames engulfed the back of the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several vehicles also caught fire, and the flames spread to a neighboring vacant home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Fire Department Battalion Chief Tony Escobedo said the homeowner was asleep when his dog began barking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe got out of the house to check, and he found fire on the back side of his house,\u201d Escobedo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Power lines also came down during the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause remains under investigation, but Escobedo said fireworks are the likely cause. While firefighters were battling the blaze, aerial fireworks continued to be launched in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Wilson Avenue fire was one of several incidents crews responded to Saturday night that officials believe were likely caused by fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other fires were reported near Holland and Feland avenues, Huntington Boulevard and Lind Avenue, Illinois and Minnewawa avenues, and First Street and Sussex Way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The extent of the damage at those locations was not immediately known, and officials had not confirmed whether anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Escobedo urged residents to use caution with fireworks, noting that firefighters responded to 14 residential fires within a two-hour period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEvery Fourth of July we preplan,\u201d Escobedo said. \u201cEvery year we have this kind of activity. The skyline just lit up. We have units at River Park that are running calls at Cherry (Avenue). We\u2019re all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Fresno fire crews at First and Sussex Way on Saturday, July 4, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4beaa1d5d03bb29dbd79eabf62a96d48.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fresno fire crews at First and Sussex Way on Saturday, July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Fresno fire crews at Illinois and Minnewawa on Saturday, July 4, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8e06db9c77c66e409f61655b9258e66e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fresno fire crews at Illinois and Minnewawa on Saturday, July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Fresno fire crews responded to another house fire at Huntington and Lind in Fresno, California on Saturday, July 4, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/105a50a18bcf99d839b425a32ff0a483.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fresno fire crews responded to another house fire at Huntington and Lind in Fresno, California on Saturday, July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"This house fire was one of 14 homes that caught on fire on Saturday, July 4, 2026. The location was on Holland Avenue, near Marks Avenue.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a137e65421b2380391cfb1d718ee1cb2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This house fire was one of 14 homes that caught on fire on Saturday, July 4, 2026. The location was on Holland Avenue, near Marks Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno homeowner escaped serious injury Saturday night after his dog\u2019s barking woke him in time to escape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,285,156270,156271],"class_list":["post-387607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-homeowner","tag-tony-escobedo","tag-wilson-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387607","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=387607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}