{"id":387944,"date":"2026-07-06T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:14:09","slug":"fireworks-fire-caught-live-on-fox26-news-during-world-cup-watch-party-in-downtown-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387944\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks fire caught LIVE on FOX26 News during World Cup watch party in Downtown Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A late-night fire near downtown Fresno is under investigation after flames spread to Kepler Neighborhood School on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><p>Fire caught LIVE on FOX26 News during World Cup watch party in Downtown Fresno (FOX26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fire started just after 10 PM near Broadway and Stanislaus Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>FOX26 News reporter Madison Wilber and photographer Chase Gauthier were reporting live at a FIFA watch party nearby when the fire unexpectedly broke out in the background of their broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-county-sheriffs-k-9-killed-after-fireworks-scare-leads-to-hit-and-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s K-9 killed after fireworks scare leads to hit-and-run<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flames quickly spread from a tree to the school&#8217;s roof, causing minor roof damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department says a car was seen in the area just before an illegal firework went off, starting the fire.<\/p>\n<p>There was no structural damage to the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Officers have video of people in the area when the fire began and are working with arson investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A late-night fire near downtown Fresno is under investigation after flames spread to Kepler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-387944","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\/387944","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=387944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}