{"id":409388,"date":"2026-07-23T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:03:09","slug":"83-year-old-killed-in-apartment-fire-in-central-fresno-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409388\/","title":{"rendered":"83-year-old killed in apartment fire in central Fresno identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 23, 2026 12:38PM<\/p>\n<p>We now know the name of the man who died in a central Fresno apartment fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; We now know the name of the man who died in a central Fresno apartment fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He&#8217;s been identified as 83-year-old James Lowery of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Fire released helmet cam video showing crews as they entered the building at First and Weldon on Wednesday, July 15.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Fire released helmet camera footage Thursday showing crews as they breached a Central Fresno apartment building during a deadly fire Wednesday. It killed one man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They tried to reach Lowery, who was trapped inside, but he never made it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire began inside the apartment and quickly spread to a shared attic space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Four units were damaged, and 15 residents were displaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 23, 2026 12:38PM We now know the name of the man who died in a central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[164091,164089,4318,2392,164090,112,114,113,294],"class_list":["post-409388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-164091","tag-83-year-old-killed","tag-apartment-fire","tag-central-fresno","tag-first-and-weldon","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409388","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=409388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}