{"id":433234,"date":"2026-08-14T23:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433234\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:28:18","slug":"11-year-old-girl-killed-in-fresno-county-house-fire-identified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433234\/","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old girl killed in Fresno County house fire identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say Ledesma was napping and home alone when it started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the family tries to figure out their next steps, assistance is coming from both relief organizations and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The person killed in a house fire in Fresno County on Thursday has been identified as 11-year-old Kayla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,622,114,113,6978,172066],"class_list":["post-433234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-house-fire","tag-kayla-cruz-ledesma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433234","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=433234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}