Crews are investigating the cause of a three-alarm fire that spread from a detached garage to three homes in Central Fresno late Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out just before 11 p.m. at a home near Roosevelt and Thomas avenues.<\/p>\n
Officials said flames started in a detached garage before spreading to the home and two neighboring residences.<\/p>\n
Firefighters initially called a second alarm but upgraded the response to a third alarm because of the size of the fire.<\/p>\n
Crews faced several challenges while battling the blaze, including downed power lines and a damaged gas meter.<\/p>\n
“We did have some downed power lines that were affecting our progress on the fire as well as a gas meter that melted away and was free-flowing, so that became dangerous for our firefighters to operate in that area until we could get the gas secured,” Battalion Chief Brian Downs said.<\/p>\n
The fire was eventually contained, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
One of the affected homes was unoccupied. The other two homes were damaged, displacing four residents from one home and two residents from the other.<\/p>\n
A total of 54 firefighters responded to the scene. Crews remained at the location for several hours after the fire was contained to ensure no hot spots remained.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are investigating the cause of a three-alarm fire that spread from a detached garage to three homes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112493,108138,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-411273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-detached-garage","tag-downed-power-lines","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411273","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=411273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}