{"id":408864,"date":"2026-07-23T02:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408864\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:12:18","slug":"man-killed-in-fresno-apartment-fire-idd-as-83-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408864\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Fresno apartment fire ID&#8217;d as 83-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FRS_EPZWARSZAWSKI_FIRE01.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Fresno Fire Department ladder truck and engine are parked within Fire Station #3 Friday, June 19, 2020 in Fresno.\" alt=\"A Fresno Fire Department ladder truck and engine are parked within Fire Station #3 Friday, June 19, 2020 in Fresno.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Fresno Fire Department ladder truck and engine are parked within Fire Station #3 Friday, June 19, 2020 in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>                ERIC PAUL ZAMORA<\/p>\n<p>            ezamora@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n<p>The man who was killed in an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article316539563.html\">apartment fire last week<\/a> has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office spokesperson Tony Botti identified the victim as James Lowery, 83, of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out around 6 p.m. last Wednesday at the 2100 block of North First Street, located south of Clinton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said the fire started in a unit that\u2019s part of a fourplex apartment building. The fire eventually spread to the shared attic space, and people reported that someone may have been trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Lowery was found in the room where the fire began and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 63 firefighters responded to the fire, including one who was hospitalized for minor burn injuries.<\/p>\n<p>All four units in the building were damaged, and 15 people were displaced. Firefighters said the cause of the fire was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nick Fenley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno Fire Department ladder truck and engine are parked within Fire Station #3 Friday, June 19, 2020&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-408864","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\/408864","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=408864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}