{"id":433098,"date":"2026-08-14T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433098\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:40:10","slug":"11-year-old-girl-killed-in-fresno-county-house-fire-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433098\/","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old girl killed in Fresno County house fire 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>Friday, August 14, 2026 7:35PM<\/p>\n<p>A deadly house fire in Laton has shaken up the small Fresno County community. Officials have confirmed that an unidentified body was found inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The person killed in a house fire in Fresno County on Thursday has been identified as 11-year-old Kayla Cruz Ledesma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire broke out at the home in Laton just after 11 a.m. on Gonser Street between Summit Avenue and Murphy Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say Ledesma was napping and home alone when it started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to Fresno County Fire, the blaze destroyed an RV parked next to the house. Flames also threatened nearby homes and spread to vegetation, prompting a response from multiple agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As the family tries to figure out their next steps, assistance is coming from both relief organizations and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 14, 2026 7:35PM A deadly house fire in Laton has shaken up the small Fresno County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[172041,172042,112,622,114,113,145487,6978,167565],"class_list":["post-433098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-11-year-old-kayla-ledesma","tag-172042","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-girl-killed","tag-house-fire","tag-no-badge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433098","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=433098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}