{"id":408319,"date":"2026-07-22T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408319\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:03:11","slug":"san-jose-one-person-killed-in-house-fire-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408319\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose: One person killed in house fire \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 One person died in a house fire early Wednesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which broke out around 4:30 a.m. on the 1200 block of Sylvia Drive, also injured another person, according to a social media post from the San Jose Fire Department. The injured person was transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the deceased person will be released by the Santa Clara County Coroner\u2019s Office pending positive identification.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to the fire and had it knocked down at 5:13 a.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was located in a single-family residence and did not spread to any nearby structures, authorities added. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross responded to the scene to provide assistance to the displaced residents of the house, including three adults and two dogs, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters asked people to avoid the scene Wednesday morning and noted that traffic nearby remained impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 One person died in a house fire early Wednesday morning, authorities said. The blaze, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4846,184,7,8,1531,138,175,181,23,100,88,90,89,198,94685,200,2442,2443],"class_list":["post-408319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-accidents","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-fires","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-crime","tag-south-bay-fires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408319","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=408319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}