{"id":408715,"date":"2026-07-23T00:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:17:10","slug":"83-year-old-fresno-man-identified-as-victim-in-deadly-fresno-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408715\/","title":{"rendered":"83 year old Fresno man identified as victim in deadly Fresno apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 An 83-year-old Fresno man has been identified as the victim of a deadly apartment fire near First Street and Clinton Avenue in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p> The Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the victim as James Lowery of Fresno on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/elderly-man-killed-in-apartment-fire-in-central-fresno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">On July 15<\/a>, firefighters responded just before 6 p.m. to a fire at a single story fourplex. Crews entered the apartment where the fire first started, and found Lowery dead in a bedroom. Officials said he was confined to a bed at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The fire spread through a shared attic space, damaging all four units and left 15 people without a home. <\/p>\n<p>Lowery&#8217;s sister was taken to a hospital for evaluation and does not have serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the fire began in the bedroom where Lowery was found, but the cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 An 83-year-old Fresno man has been identified as the victim of a deadly apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-408715","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\/408715","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=408715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}